What are they being slammed for? The actions of a nasty old pedophile, in their property 30 years ago? Surely some people should be held to account over it but they are either six feet under in a sparkly gold coffin or long, long gone employees.

I truly don't understand the Lord McAlpine scandal. Rather than defend itself, the BBC is its own harshest (and its own actual, when you consider the motivations of those attacking it) critic. It comes from Rupert Murdoch and Richard Desmond.

But you're reading a blog on The Huffington Post