Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.

Granada massacre of 1066, possibly.

I don't think he was thinking at all. It seems likely that he used AI, which confused the Norman Conquest and the massacre of Jews in Granada in 1066.

That was my first thought, but I think it's more likely that he (or whichever AI he used) has confused it with the Granada massacre of 1066. Either way, who cares about such trifling details? Certainly not Boris Johnson, lecturing an audience about Jewish history *at Auschwitz*.

When it comes to 1066*, he has form.

* And everything else.

As any fule no, the Norman Conquest was the event that led the first Jewish communities to settle in England.

I used to teach at a couple of universities. I don't anymore, which is why I don't style myself as an academic.

Which institution is he attached to that would justify describing him as an academic?

Conclusion: Matilda may have been 152cm, or 5’ tall – the same height, roughly, as Queen Victoria. But she certainly wasn’t 127cm (4’2”). That’s simply an error caused by bad reporting, and one which doesn’t even fit with the evidence of Matilda’s successful childbearing.