Edited highlights

 "There was a difference of opinion in EGSC [Editorial Standards and Guidelines Commitee] about the editing of Trump’s speech."

The most important sentence in the review by Peter Johnston prepared for BBC Chairman Samir Shah on  the Michael Prescott dossier of complaints about BBC News. Dr Shah has claimed that some of the delay in process was because he wanted to find out what had been going on.  Of course, in this most important matter, he knew precisely what had been going on, because he was Chair of the EGSC - unless, of course he'd drifted off during the discussions. (The minutes wouldn't help with recall). 

Dr Shah's response to 18 questions about the corporate melt-down that lost the BBC a DG is an essay in pleonasm.  In his description of the process, we read about "Board Calls" - are they full sessions, properly minuted, or panic Zoom meetings, with no recording ?  He says there was no "Board decision" about confidence in Deborah Turness, yet admits to canvassing the views of non-executives. Even without Shumeet Banerji, that gives Dr Shah a nine-three voting position against the Executive members. The surprise is that from the key Thursday "Board Call", it took until Saturday for Ms Turness to decide her position was untenable.