Go on BBC News - go on strike. We don't give a fig, you know.

It’s hard to be sympathetic with very well paid BBC journalists who may (or may not depending on a revaluation and the impact of indexing changes) get a marginal reduction to their pensions. A change already agreed with other BBC staff. So I don't care about them striking about it.

But then I’m not going to miss BBC News coverage – it might even be better without Nicky Campbell, Kirsty Wark and assorted other members of our righteous media elite laying their hearts-on-sleeve left-wingedness on us over the airwaves.

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