What a surprise !

These are tense times in most media organisations. The very act of summoning staff to a short-notice briefing raises anxiety about redundancies, pay cuts, strategic-shifts-of-direction-that-may leave-you-behind-etc. So there was a mixture of relief and mild irritation when Sky News hacks were pulled together this week (in the lull of Prime Minister's Question Time) to find the focus of the briefing was, in fact, the fragrant Kay Burley, marking 21 years with the organisation.