Welcome to the last Londoner’s Diary liveblog of the week. First up we hear from Dorothy Byrne, Channel 4’s editor at large, who has slammed Martin Bashir’s rehiring as something that she could only imagine happening at the BBC or in the Soviet Union. Later, we hear how Sir Ian McKellen celebrated when he saw a famous actor check his flies before going on stage. Then, Jessie Ware reveals what she ate that caused her to change her pre-show diet. And in SW1A Jeremy Corbyn claims Luciana Berger “wasn’t hounded out” of the Labour party, and Peter Bone ponders more deeply on his commitment to travel by horse.
