There are few things more savagely amusing than a disgraced member of the BBC becoming indignant. (‘Member’ seems the oddly appropriate word, considering how employees seem to conform on everything from loving transvestites to hating Israel.)

It’s hardly surprising, though still rather shocking, that Huw Edwards, a keen viewer of indecent images of children, is getting into a self-righteous stew over the Channel 5 drama ‘Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards’

It’s hardly surprising, though still rather shocking, that Huw Edwards, a keen viewer of indecent images of children, is getting into a self-righteous stew over the Channel 5 drama ‘Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards’

It’s often said approvingly that ‘the NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion’ (as Nigel Lawson first sarcastically noted) but though the BBC is very much in favour of the NHS, it probably regards itself as the sole national religion now. So it’s hardly surprising, though still rather shocking, that Huw Edwards, a keen viewer of indecent images of children (several of them category A, the most serious level of abuse, depicted a child around eight years old) just a couple of years after being sacked by Auntie is getting into a self-righteous stew over the Channel 5 drama Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards which aired last night.

In a statement to the Daily Mail, this preposterous man complained that Wonderhood, the makers of the two-parter, ‘made no attempt to check with me the truth of any aspect of their narrative before going ahead with the production… they belatedly asked for a response after the drama had been made, while reserving the........

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