Additives

When he's away from a script, Tim Davie makes up the odd unusual phrase. In front of the DCMS Select Committee, he offered "Impartial reporting can be flavoursome". 

He wavered on the cuts that flow from dropping the regional current affairs offering "Inside Out". He said there might be more central funds to support the new six hubs that will be charged with the new weekly show. He confessed that he'd never listened to "The Cut", the BBC golf podcast hosted by Iain Carter and Andrew Cotter, last heard in November last year, and now dropped.

He was pretty firm on the problems with decriminalising non-payment of the licence-fee. He said the current system made logical sense, and so far, the Government hadn't given details of its proposed alternative. Presumably, it's alternative is Charles Moore as Chairman. 

Embarrassingly, it was the DG's screen that froze first, 30 minutes in, and it took a good five minutes for him to reappear. It all got a bit feisty two hours in, when cuddly newly-wed Philip Davies MP waded in. Tim Davie's tactics were to up the volume and gestures. Philip seemed unusually cowed, so decided to have a pop at Sir David Clementi. He too upped the volume and the gestures, giving Mr Davies' a full view of his flared nostrils. Mr Davies accused him of having a wasp in his trousers, and, over his term of office, standing by having a bottle of wine for lunch while Gary Lineker drove the electorate into electing a Conservative government with the power of his Tweets.  Sir Dave noted that Mr Davies had pursued a lengthy complaint case against the BBC with Ofcom, which Ofcom found to be 'without merit'. 

More of this, please.