‘BBC clods should be ashamed of their crass dismissal of Blue Peter’

Only the clod-hopping halfwits who help run the BBC could bungle the news of the virtual demise of Blue Peter with such uncaring crassness. Asking someone which presenting team they grew up with is one of the easiest, and most discreet, ways of discovering someone’s approximate age — and before you ask, this is the team that encouraged me to be to kind to animals, try canoeing and make Christmas decorations that were a lethal mix of tinsel, glue and glitter and would have been as inflammable as a can of unleaded.

The show ran for nearly 70 years, but now there will be no live output making it literally a case of “here’s one I made earlier.” While it’s highly likely children’s viewing habits and interest in content will have changed down the decades, putting a show out to grass in such an undignified fashion should have been unconscionable. A farewell showcase special featuring as many presenters past and present was the very least one of TV’s Crown Jewels deserved. By the way, can anyone remember why we were sending plastic bags full of often foul-smelling milk bottle tops to John and Val?

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Truanting pupils are to be offered inducements such as pizza parties and even a bicycle to try and tempt them back to class. While there is without doubt a small number of children who have emotional issues concerning going to school and they must be helped, this scheme is crazy as it encourages pupils to bunk off school so they are recognised in the first place. Then, do as you should have been doing all along, and you might pick up an iPad!

The dunce’s cap for whoever dreamt up this nonsense.

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The ‘right on’ credentials shone brightly for Labour while in opposition over the use, or purchase of anything that was remotely related to the slave trade and the knee-taking, Empire-loathing, virtue signalling was endless.

But now in power, they appear relaxed about buying solar panels for our schools and hospitals made by Uighur Muslim slaves in China, as Energy Secretary Ed Miliband was forced to concede on my radio show.

Remember that classic Groucho Marx line: “Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them … well, I have others.”

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What do you call the government action in cracking down on the ludicrous abuse of the Motability scheme that has seen 11,000 cars taken from benefit recipients for making fraudulent claims? A start.

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Acknowledging the vagaries of her CV, has anyone thought to check whether Rachel Reeves was at that Sabrina Carpenter concert as her lead backing singer and choreographer?