The BBC hopes it can cut stuff that doesn't cost anything, could be reinstated at the blink of an eye and might stir public outrage at the nasty Conservatives attacking our 'national treasure'. Watch while it makes a song and dance about stuff it cuts you've never even heard of or that were on their way out anyway.

The BBC is cutting it's collection of recipes to save money.

Are their Climate Science experts being retained?

In the event of civil emergency, I might need a recipe for rock cakes made out of herbal enfused organic tofu, but more failed climate expertise? I think not.

Radical Rodent, the current panic was forecast by all the tea-leaf readers in China. The US Tea Party are preparing to celebrate the end of the Kerching Dynasty of Climate Science.

Radical Rodent & Alan Kendall, everyone knows (97% Consensus) that if all Chinese people jumped off a kitchen chair at the same time, it would have to be a big chair.

RR It was indeed an Amazonian rainforest butterfly's wings that cause climate havoc. Perhaps you were confused by cold war fears of the effects of simultaneous jumping up and down of billions of Chinese causing massive earthquakes in California.

Alan Kendall, I am a great fan of improved European harmony, but the Eurovision Song Contest reveals that politics will always intefere with us singing from the same hymn sheet (other religious choral works are widely available)

If the Soviet Union had invaded Australia over 70 years ago, just think how different the result could have been on saturday night. People who ignore history will always miss these subtleties in climate science, and want to blame things on the colour of the butterfly's wings, that flapped in the Amazonian rainforest.

golf Charlie. I fail to see how a leader's accent will result in closure of the Channel Tunnel, nor the demise of the great British bangers. I believe this is a classic case of transference. You fear total victory for the Remainers and a consequent loss of a full English on the EuroStar