Infuriated by the fall-out from Hutton, BBC journalists have been reacting with characteristic modesty. Here’s an example of what they have been saying:

’The majority of our journalism is bloody good, world-beating.’

Ha ha ha ha.

Still, it looks like they won’t have to change their ways too much. The current favorite to become the new chairman is apparently none other than EU commissioner Chris Patten, a man long notorious for his embrace of humbug, hypocrisy and hysterical anti-Americanism.

He should fit in nicely.