And following Jo Brand’s comments about throwing battery acid at Farage let’s see if she’s treated the same way as Danny Baker was for his joke.

The BBC has defended her and the show was pre-recorded plenty of time to edit it out, make an apology etc.

As I have said on several occasions make a racist comment meant or not and there is no way back with the BBC no second chances etc. However they don't take that view with other things such a this.

I thought Jo made the cardinal sin of any comedian, it wasn't funny.

As it doesn't say anything at all that is specific to any case, but sets out the standards it aspires to, you already know the answer. So why ask the question?

The BBC have admitted their failures over such cases and reviewed procedures. Everyone can learn and do better. That mistakes happen doesn't equal what some want it to.

How do you know that any "liberal or PC fascist" conspired to stop the extent of the abuse becoming public knowledge? I don't think anyone yet knows exactly why things were handled as they were but I am quite sure that whatever was done, was done in good faith. You can argue that hindsight has shown it to be wrong but not the motives of those taking the decisions at the time. We can all be clever dicks once the fog of uncertainty has cleared and the need to support the Police by avoiding compromising their investigations has gone away. We just don't know all the circumstances and those arm chair experts who think they do don't help. That's why people like "Robinson" are not actually making things better by stirring up hatred.

I don't know if there was a cover up anymore than you do. I also don't know if the media exercised voluntary restraint or whether they were requested to. I am not defending, or condemning any of these things. I am though defending the attacks on the motivations of the decision makers who I am certain thought they were doing the right thing.

The question was purely rhetorical. The high moral standards you seem to ascribe to the BBC are obviously quite pliable. In the case of the abusers at the BBC the decision not to do anything about known situations was taken out of expediency; not for any lack of procedural guidance.

If I remember correctly the individuals who took those decisions have long gone but nevertheless received the criticism they deserved, despite the obviously different cultural environment which existed back then. Everything evolves, including the BBC and it's approach to this kind of subject.