Exactly, maybe I'm old fashioned- but I always think of the internet as a kind of buffer- user names etc, kind of like chatting down the ale house: which is not the kind of thing that scans well if reported word for word.....but, things change. I like Diane Abbot- she's good on this week on the BBC- but she's an old School lefty,andf a bit thick/earnest- I'm trying to imagine if Micheal Portillo made a similar comment about "Blacks" or even, heaven forbid "Coloured's"- worse than top gear's J.C. It's a funny old world.