Quickie: The BBC again

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So I wrote last week about Greg Wallace and this week we have John Torode saying complaints about him using racist language were upheld.

The BBC then sacked him.  Fine.

Then we have the reports saying he was just singing along with a song that had the N**** word in it.  Well, I have no issue with that because it a lyric in a song.  

Oh wait, there is an issue with that because he's not black.

It's still a lyric in a song though and John Torode can sing it like I can, if I want (I don't because that isn't my music).

So, I felt like sticking up for him at that point.

Yet it seems he's used it to another member of staff and it's one of nine complaints upheld against him.

Yet again, the BBC.

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