Exactly.

30 minute programme clumsily edits a 54 min speech in a way that doesn’t mislead the audience because the whole world watched the ensuing riot on live TV and rioters testified that Trump incited them in court as a defence. Hope he sues. The BBC will win.

Either US or British, but the damages figure is completely made up. Besides, claiming that a 30 min programme edited a 54 min speech to misleadingly suggest incitement falls flat when 200+ J6 rioters testified, in court, that Trump incited them. A Grenada case for the Beeb.

Does the 45 min/Andrew Gilligan episode still influence BBC decisions about fighting political foes?

Sent her some historical links to explain it. Had to point out that police interrogation is different these days.

Had to forewarn a recently-arrived Ukrainian researcher that Guy Fawkes night is now at least a week long because it fell on a Wednesday. Not fun when you’ve been under an actual air raid recently.

An analogy: if Mike Pence had refused to count the electoral college votes, US democracy could have been lost in a day. Trump didn’t start the process in 2016.

Enjoyed this, and realised that there is a hat tip to Threads in HoS when Jason Clarke’s character mentions being dug out of the bunker. If you’ve seen Threads, it’s an admission that they won’t get dug out.

But drying clothes is a nightmare. This phase has lasted a month rather than a week.