Friday, February 6/2009

The BBC struggles with the problem of political correctness with uneven results. So when Carol Thatcher, daughter of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, says, during a conversation in the green room after a show, that a French tennis player looks like a gollywog she is sacked. Whereas Jeremy Clarkson, the motorsport presenter, who is of far more value to the BBC, refers to Prime Minister Gordon Brown as a "one-eyed Scottish idiot" he is not. But then Thatcher initially refused to apologise, whereas Clarkson says that he was wrong to call Gordon Brown one-eyed and Scottish - but maintains that he is an idiot.