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It's never a good thing when the BBC becomes the news and gets discussed – endlessly. My favourite comment on the Lineker affair was Matt Pritchett's cartoon, showing a weather girl giving the forecast: ‘Freezing temperatures. Snow’ and travel chaos. Gary Lineker compares it to Stalingrad 1942-3.’

I don't have any favourite comments about Richard Sharp, BBC chairman. Or about the inexplicable, un-Reithian decision to axe

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