The GayBC has become a creature of its own imagination.

Observing incandescent staff delight from its far-right commentators – Phillip Adams, Barry Cassidy, Andrew Probyn, Emma Alberici, John Faine among others – at Michelle Guthrie’s sacking was gobsmacking.

To observe their faux rage as they declared she had somehow “undermined” their impartiality defied reason.

Faine is the Ripping Yarns Eric Olthwaite of Australian radio, fictionally someone so patronisingly boring even his family abandoned him.