Fresh from the mess of Jimmy Savile, the BBC broadcasts allegations of sexual abuse by Lord McAlpine, once the treasurer of the Conservative Party, and then discovers they are false. Director-General George Entwistle resigns after a mere 53 days in the job, gets a year’s salary of £450,000 to walk away from the chaos. But why did he go?
The Guardian, as always, is deep in the mud, feeling with its collective fingers for the bodies attached to old cookers in the slime.
