The Beeb has lost the plot....

Clearly, the debacle over the BBC coverage of the Jubilee water pageant was no aberration,

On Saturday we tuned in to ‘Trooping the Colour Highlights’. It was a one-hour programme.

The first 25 minutes was a load of introductory gunge before we even got to Horseguards.

When the action started, we were treated to constant inane chat about who composed a particular march in 1834 and other boring trivia, but no real attempt to talk us through the ceremony itself.

Time was when we had the  incomparable Tom Fleming as presenter. Not anymore. The presenters seem totally ignorant of what they are presenting and simply bored by the whole thing.

And Allan Titchmarsh, BBC’s sniveller-in-chief doing ‘Last Night of the Proms’ that last year excluded ‘Sea Songs’, Sir Henry Wood’s own composition?

The Beeb has lost the plot!