[Tubby Isaacs]

The Government, as I understand it anyway, have a fair few appointments they could make to the BBC Governors now and in the near future. While I'm sure they won't be as blatant as Bozo appointing Gibb, I think the discontent with Mason-ism goes a fair bit wider than Labour partisans, and we might see a few changes. Nandy is pretty low profile in this stuff, but the standards committee has already been reformed with a weakening of Gibb's power. I would be surprised if we don't see a few more changes to improve things.

[Tubby Isaacs]

That's so plausible

It's also to do with them being relatively progressive and having found a path in the Budget that didn't cause "war" with backbenchers or send the markets crashing. They're still annoyed that Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng did that, and not Starmer-Reeves.

[Youngian]

Every fucking week for the past 20 years has had 'a focus on immigration.' Who can even be bothered to watch this shit?

[Boiler]

Every fucking week for the past 20 years had had 'a focus on immigration.' Who can even be bothered to watch this shit?

Not me. Can't stand the programme, can't stand the presenter. She should fuck off and stick to dealing with nice middle-class people sniffing around to see how much their family heirloom is worth.

[Killer Whale]

Weird how, for example, A Place In The Sun isn't trailed as having "a focus on immigration".

[Boiler]

Weird how, for example, A Place In The Sun isn't trailed as having "a focus on immigration".

But they're ex-pats.

[Killer Whale]

Weird how, for example, A Place In The Sun isn't trailed as having "a focus on immigration".

But they're ex-pats.

And towns are always sold on having a 'thriving British ex-pat community' because, y'know, fuck integration or anything like that.

[Youngian]

An insightful take on the 'ex-pat.'

[Boiler]

An insightful take on the 'ex-pat.'

Two memories stand out from working abroad: one, the bell-ends who pretended they had an injured child with them in the admittedly seriously over-crowded area by the Sydney Opera House to see the fireworks at the closing ceremony of the 2000 Olympics (and it was obvious from the guy's near-laughing tone of voice that there was no child - and the locals saw straight through it), and my deliberately speaking French to any Anglophone that rocked up during the 2016 Euros in Paris.

The former incident was the only time I felt the urge to apologise for being British to people. The response was usually along the lines of "we can see you're not, maybe he'd be more at home on the Costas".