Forget about Ed Stourton. Forget, almost, about the Strictly Come Dancing scandal. Daily Telegraph diarist Tim Walker, it appears, has been told his services are no longer required on the BBC News channel's newspaper review this month. "There is quite enough paranoia at the BBC as it is," writes Walker in his Mandrake column today. He prefers Stourton to his Today replacement Justin Webb, you see. "The other day a corporation hireling told me that the evening newspaper reviews I had been invited to do for the BBC's news channel this month will not now be happening. A chum at Wood Lane whispers that the powers-that-be took exception to a piece I wrote about Fiona Bruce moaning about the 'tat' that viewers brought to the Antiques Roadshow. Well, it's their loss." Walker tells Monkey: "It's tempting to say it's about what Jeremy Paxman was saying about how white middle class males have no chance at the BBC these days."
