Just one more thing on Broadcasting House....
Was Hugh Sykes the first person to relay the conspiracy theory about the extreme right being behind the attacks in Cologne to the UK? Because if he was, then BH paper reviewer Vince Cable had clearly been listening carefully. Later in the programme, he said this:
We don't know whether [the attackers] were instigated by religious fervour or by people from the extreme right trying to provoke an incident. We don't know that...
And, thus, the conspiracy theory spreads...
That said, Dr Cable's thought that "religious fervour" could have been behind the sexually-aggressive actions of the overwhelming Arab and North African mob was an unexpected one. I can hear a thousand tweeters crying in unison, "It's got nothing to do with Islam" and "IsDrCableIslamophobic?" winning a coveted place on BBC Trending.
