Bargain Hunt was censured by the BBC complaints watchdog after an antique dealer said false on-air claims that a ring he sold to contestants wasn’t a Victorian original tarnished his name. The jeweller said the programme had damaged his reputation in the industry when it suggested a ring he sold was made in the 1950s, … Read more
A High Court judge who was counsel to the Leveson inquiry ‘harassed and intimidated’ an unrepresented claimant in a libel case and used ‘ill-tempered and at times offensive language’, fellow judges have said. Mr Justice Jay has been been censured for his use of ‘immoderate’ language towards a claimant in the case, who was not represented by … Read more
Emily Maitlis’s last-minute Newsnight replacement studiously ignored coverage of the presenter being reprimanded over her Dominic Cummings monologue as she reviewed today’s papers. The BBC admitted Maitlis had breached the broadcaster’s impartiality rules when she asserted Boris Johnson’s chief aide had ‘broken the rules’ regarding lockdown in her introduction to the programme on Tuesday. The … Read more