The above image shows the team of BBC reporters involved in this year's Correspondents Look Ahead on Radio 4.
From left to right, there's Carrie Gracie, Kamal Ahmed, Lyse Doucet and Bridget Kendall. Furthest to the right (ironically) is presenter Michael Moore...er no, actually it's Mark Mardell with a newly-grown beard, though he certainly does a bit like Michael Moore these days...
If this year's Correspondents Look Ahead were Jesse Jesse from the Fast Show, it would emerge from its luxurious Islington shed saying, "This year I 'ave mostly been talking China".
More considered thoughts will follow...
I see Lyse Doucet is still suffering from "Cultural Assumption Syndrome".
ReplyDeleteShe made reference to the fact that some mothers had gone into labour on a migrant ship in 2014 as proof of their desperation...assuming of course that the woman had made the decision to get on the boat rather than being told to get on the boat by her male guardian whoever that might be, possibly a male guardian who was desperate to have a child born in Europe.
She seems to have this idea that all women around the world enjoy the same freedom of action as a North American woman from the early 21st century.