I often watch this lively wide-awake political programme. However, I hate the dominating red-themed cups.
Why does the BBC feel it is so vital to create a themed studio atmosphere?
At least, it is not as awful as the Stygian gloom that pervades the Newsnight studio - with those awful distracting moving backgrounds. Those glaring yellow stars and abstract flags are the worst backgrounds I have ever seen. Just because we have the technology, we do not have to use it. Very annoying!
This week, I was shocked by the bad manners shown to another Politics Live guest when Christopher Hope, a Telegraph journalist, corrected the grammar of Carolyn Fairburn.
I had expected that Jo Coburn would have condemned such rudeness with a bit more vigour.
However, may I direct them to the excellent article by Oliver Kamm: 'No genuine rule dictates the use of less or fewer.'Â (The Times, Oct 2016.)
"The very notion of a neat distinction between fewer and less according to whether the noun is countable or not is a myth. ...
It's fine with any countable
noun: less words, less presents and less eggs as well as less than ten ounces."
Carolyn Fairburn did not deserve such arrogant rudeness.