BBC diversity, Radio 1, James Purnell

Jon Holmes says he was fired from BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show because it wanted ‘more women and diversity’. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

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English Defence League: members were reportedly sought for the BBC’s Question Time. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian

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And finally...

Monty Python star John Cleese pulled no punches in his reaction to a Telegraph comment piece by Spectator editor Fraser Nelson, implying that he was a “half-educated tenement Scot”...

Why do we let half-educated tenement Scots run our English press ? Because their craving for social status makes them obedient retainers ? https://t.co/uCXEvbZssE

— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) October 2, 2016