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Rod Liddle

I've invented a new game. It's called 'Six Degrees of Shami Chakrabarti'

It links together Sally Morgan and Philip Seymour Hoffman

8 February 2014

9:00 AM

8 February 2014

9:00 AM

Can someone please explain to me why the BBC newsreaders were not wearing black armbands last weekend when reporting the tragic story of Sally Morgan being given the boot from Ofsted? In all other manners the coverage was adequately respectful and the reporters, rightly, allowed their anguish to bleed through the fraying bandage of impartiality.

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