Evan Davis quits Newsnight !

hope so

is humphrys retiring? that would be a joy, i can't listen to that pompous, sanctemonious, miserable auld fekker theses days

Today is the early morning news programme,nothing to do with Humphreys

meant to say 5pm prog nothing to do with Humphreys

I was watching this male advert for anorexia the other night and trying not to shout at the TV, WAC. I'd say good riddance but wouldn't be surprised if he's getting even more license fee money. Which paragon of balance will replace him given it's the BBC in 2018? Nish Kumar?

Emily Maitlis, I believe.

Maitlis. A ridiculously biased "journalist" at the BBC if ever there was, and a BBC box tick. So you might be right.

One thing certain, it won't be male white and hetero.

Didn't she threaten leaving the BBC earlier in the year over sexist pay dispute and was given a raise of £70,000?

They wanted to keep her

I caught an episode of "politics live" this week. Like a bad version of question time and just like question time a gaggle of lefties talking over non lefties (not stopped by Coburn of course) and Coburn trying a series of painful yes/no style questions on complex issues like a bad paxman.

What about jonny snow that would cheer the obsessed tory/donny fanboys up no end

Wasn't Evan Davis married to the lady who read the weather a couple of years ago, i think it was Barbara Edwards

May have been but isn't he gay?

I don't watch Newsnight but I do remember Evan Davis saying he cries when he drives past the migrants at Calais on his way to his holiday home.

Davis was born in Malvern, Worcestershire to Quintin Visser Davis and Hazel Noreen Davis.[3] He grew up in Ashtead, Surrey.[4] He attended Dorking County Grammar School, which in 1976 became The Ashcombe School, Dorking.

Davis then gained a First in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St John's College, Oxford, which he attended from 1981 to 1984, before obtaining an MPA at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.[5] While at Oxford University, he edited Cherwell, the student newspaper.

Davis lives in London with his partner Guillaume Baltz, a French landscape architect.[22][23][24] He is the owner of a whippet named Mr. Whippy.[25] Davis is a keen motorcyclist, and was seen riding a Yamaha R6 motorcycle in BBC Two's The City Uncovered.[26]

If you took the words chav, Tory, spiv and fanboy out of the English language anxious would have fxxk all to say

no wonder he works for the filth bbc

"If you took the words chav, Tory, spiv and fanboy out of the English language anxious would have fxxk all to say"
You've noticed that as well? But you're being a bit unfair, he also uses the word "Murdoch" randomly.

You Murdoch loving lory spiv fanboy.

You Murdoch loving lory spiv fanboy.

I resemble that remark

He lives with a landscape architect, is that a posh way of saying uphill gardener?

As well as a gherkin muncher, in all likeliness.

Didn't he take over when Tampaxman quit?  The Beeb's gone steeply downhill ever since

Yes.  2014.

Eddir Mair's not too bad on LBC from 4-6 since he left Today.

Radio Four is Finnish.

Who would the Spiv fans like presenting Newsnight Richard fatty feckin Littlejohn another right wing bar room bore zzzzzzzzz

Obviously wasn't married to the BBC weather forecaster Barbara Edwards then.

I've long thought Goebbels would make a good Newsnight host.

no - he runs the whole show

From the grave ?

exactly

"Ein Jackboot In Der Grave" is a great sitcom idea for a comedy about a cantankerous old retired Wehrmacht officer getting into all sorts of scrapes.

Catchphrase: "This would never happen under the Fuhrer!"

THE PRODUCERS

Wasnt that the film that had -Springtime for Hitler and Germany

indeed - very funny  and the nar zee who wrote the play said something like just checking quotes!!