CHANGING HIS TUNE
Reporting the World Cup bribes scandal, BBC sports editor David Bond has to backtrack on the clean bill of health he gave Qatar in 2011 on Newsnight.

SPORTING CHALLENGE
If Lord Coe wins the chair of the BBC Trust, will he question the cosy link between BBC sports and PR man Mike Lee? Don’t bank on it...

ARMCHAIR COMMENTATOR
What’s the fuss about, asks football presenter Richard Keys, booted out of Sky for sexism but now opining for Qatar’s state-owned sports channel.

PRIVACY ON PARADE
Sky News rejoices when a producer wins damages from John Lewis for sending spam email… but the privacy ruling could be awkward for Sky.

GENDER AGENDA
The BBC has to demote R2’s Alex Lester and his successful show as it daren’t sack another female presenter in her 50s (Vanessa Feltz: for it is she!)

PLUS: Dumb Britain, I-Sky, World Cup Ad Nauseam, Desperate D-Day Marketing, Luvvies & more.

The Richard Dawkins Book of Children’s Stories No One Wants Read to Them… China Remembers 25th Anniversary of Nothing At All… Birmingham Academies and the three Rs – Reading, Writing and Radicalisation… Those Blair/Bush Letters Chilcot Is Too Scared to Publish… Bryony Gordon’s Diary, as told to Craig Brown

And also...

- Sharia compliance: How the Law Society aids discrimination against Muslim women
- Gas alert! Why UK energy policy seems to be based on a massive blunder
- War studies: Academics vie for MoD money to take the right line on the Afghan war
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