Im staggered that anybody can be. I totally get that people in popular media culture have media personalities and private personalities, in that they become provocative or devils advocate and so on in order to remain relevant and be current. But he does not have those qualities. He quite simply says outrageous things knowing that the stupid will like it. And these are his words, he is a stupid bigoted irrelevant bore. His marginal WASP views no longer fit the modern world, they may fit the Red Lion in Quaint Village, Oxfordshire where he parks his Range Rover and talks shit to fellow minded middle aged idiots, but thankfully the BBC which realises it has wider responsibilities saw through him and saw sense