The morning BBC News is very important, I know that. But there is something about it that is repulsive (and I’m not even talking about the presenters'love for anti aging facelifts and skin-care). If you don’t think it’s repulsive then I suggest you promptly book yourself in for the next evening-class of ‘Don’t know what’s repulsively embarrassing to anyone under the age of thirty and want to find out? Come and do an evening class!'I am, of course, talking about the shocking and brutally embarrassing section of the show (and this happens almost every single morning) when they do a feature on something considered ‘cool’, ‘hip’ or, at its most gut-wrenching, ‘grimy’. I need not look far back in to the past for such exaggerated grimness. Only this morning there were hip-hop dancers on TV trying to look for sponsorship, and what a hash the two presenters made of it–

I wish I could say it’s only the comments and the camaraderie that are appalling and vomit inducing, but it’s not. It’s everything. Compounding this is the fact that the little jokes they make are obviously scripted, making them bomb as if clad in lead.

If anyone who has anything to do with this mess is reading, I have a suggestion: why not get a couple of people on—and they don’t have to be young—who have a slight professional comedic touch? Let the presenters stick to the news. Give this part of the show the same professionalism it deserves.