The Beeb goes from bad to verse

THE BBC has ‘shared’ with us a verse composed by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage to mark the corporation’s 100th anniversary.. I wish it hadn’t bothered. Entitled Transmission Report, it’s not Armitage’s best effort. In fact, it has more than a touch about it of William McGonagall, the Scottish versifier generally acknowledged…

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