Thanks for sending me down a wormhole, leading to these realisations:
a) bird-related subjects feature heavily in successful novelty songs
b) rose-tinted nostalgia forgets most 70s/80s dancing was rubbish, I mean, look at these examples

Finally markets only do this when they are very unhappy, writes the always readable @katie0martin.ft.com on.ft.com/4rg5pni

The money’s from Little Baby Don of course, an Italian hedge fund magnate now residing in Dubai.
Dammit this post is the perfect intersection of media finance & cheesy tune chants & of course I’m now focusing on the latter. Interesting how many ex-Mail hacks will come back to the mothership

Did you spot my new book Pivoting to Grift in there?
Being bombarded on socials with so many commands to pivot I fear for the earth’s crust

Seems not first time he’s used this moniker or is he helping publicise Adolescence writer Jack Thorne’s forthcoming timely BBC adaptation of Lord of the Flies?

It was a lump of Sainsbury’s cheddar.

Although I did go to a fashion show on the tube last week paid for by the EU to promote sales of French cheese with every costume “inspired by cheese” thank you for giving me the excuse to post this.

The Robin Gibb 1970s hair is an added bonus

Bet some involved in leak that led to BBC crisis may say same

Imagining them all sitting at the round table overthinking it whilst the traitors are at the BBC gates

been subject of speculation he’d go after charter renewal anyway but this takes heat off the organisation he’s fought for &, behind the scenes, had to endure abuse on its behalf. Yes it’s good £££ but also a tough job & in these “febrile times”, as Davie called them, good candidates likely put off

I have to take ultimate responsibility. Our organisation is a critical ingredient of a healthy society, as well as a thriving creative sector. We should champion it, not weaponise it.” The rest of his email’s in screenshot but ultimately Davie’s sacrificing himself for the good of the BBC. He’s..