"The BBC wont like having their probity questioned. I don't think anybody does."

oo-er!

Normally I'd agree, but in the case of this particular awards ceremony, one which gives Don McLean a lifetime acheivement award and which gets Barbera Dickson to present it, I really do think that even bad publicity is good publicity.

It is such a tea-with-the-vicar type institution that hints of corruption actually liven it up a bit. I've barely been aware of its existence, and was never remotely interested in it, until this whole "transparency" business came up.