BBC management has such a knack for unsuccessful compromise that I can only imagine Nick Clegg had a big smile on his face last night as he thought: for once it’s not me!
Yesterday evening, Radio 1’s chart show had a dilemma – a successful campaign had sent “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead”, the 50-second masterpiece from The Wizard of Oz, to number two as a macabre and (perhaps) humorous celebration of Margaret Thatcher’s death. It sold just under 53,000 copies, 5,700 short of the number one (Duke Dumont, Need You (100%)).
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