Big Brother

As the row over Big Brother continues, Channel 4 CEO Andy Duncan has stubbornly refused to admit that the station has done anything wrong (other than take TV to low even his show couldn’t have dreamt possible). He said that he was "not ashamed of what was broadcast, quite the opposite". Those members of the lower sides who have played hockey against Duncan (he turns out for Old Whits) will not have been surprised by his defiance. In a decade of umpiring matches where he has played, the unsmiling Duncan has never knowingly accepted a decision made against him, and has certainly not shaken the hand of the umpire after the game. Perhaps Channel 4 and Duncan deserve each other.

And even the bookmakers are getting in on the act ...