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Just had to commit these to (virtual) paper...

A caller to Any Answers on Radio 4 has just said "Well, it's just another nail in the catalogue of this government..." WTF?

A while back, there was a report on R4 (I do listen to other stations too, honest!) from the BBC's correspondent in Germany. He was doing a piece on Angela Merckel's problems and how she was no longer seen as unassailable in parts of Germany that were her strongholds. He reported that the German press had said that she no longer gave the impression of being the Iron Chancellor. The BBC man said that this was making reference to Margaret Thatcher. Really? The German press still make references to a former British PM who left office over 20 years ago? So, absolutely no connection then to Otto von Bismarck, the Prussian aristocrat who unified Germany in the 1870s and was known as the Iron Chancellor? Of course not. No parochial attitudes or dumbing down at the BBC...