Stand by

When the BBC occupied Television Centre, Broadcasting House and Bush House, the risk of blank tv screens instead of news bulletins (because one of three buildings might be forced to close) was mitigated by detailed plans to move between the remaining two.

The Risk Pessimists (probably now a formal title in Val's Career Path Framework) went catatonic when everything converged at Broadcasting House. The only remaining viable standby was the studios at Millbank. Every other solar eclipse, some hapless team is chosen to demonstrate that they can decant from BH to Millbank in moments and keep a news service running.

The biggest studio at Millbank is used by the Daily Politics and This Week. Editor Rob 'Bouncy' Burley, a combative presence on Twitter, is relaunching the Daily Politics as the all-new Politics Live, with promise of big screens and loads of social media stuff. In an organisation looking to save £80m a year, a new expensive set seems like a good idea. Rob's boys have been very active on Amazon.

The boxes they did come. pic.twitter.com/Mzw47jsYWO

— Rob Burley (@RobBurl) August 8, 2018

However, this makes the studio less friendly to other users, should some post-Brexit Armageddon (think closed sushi shops or sandwich riots) leads to a tip-out at Broadcasting House. Who will tell Rob ?