BBC: We don't do England

A few years ago the BBC's Radio Times advertised the Proms with this advert (which I took the liberty of scanning).

It looks innocuous enough until you notice that they have included all the national flags of the UK except the St George's Cross.

Yesterday Aunty Beeb cocked up again:

Again it seems innocuous enough until you read the Audit Commision report and realise that it is English farmers, rather than 'UK farmers', that have incurred costs of between £18 million and £22.5 million in additional interest and arrangement fees on loans due to the ineptitude of DEFRA and negligence of the UK government.

As the Telegraph reported back in March:

While farmers in Scotland and Wales have already received their annual payments and at least one EU country paid their farmers in December, most English farmers will wait to be paid until a meltdown at the Rural Payments Agency is sorted out.

Not only is it time for an English government, it is also time for a BBC England.

See Waking Hereward.