Oh please, just shut up will you?

As soon as I heard his familiar whining voice, I placed a small wager with myself that the inveterate but inexpert self-publicist and serial failure Ray Gosling will be proved to have made it all up. Whether or not he realises that, if I'm right, is another question, as is why he might do so, so I will probably never be able to settle the bet.

I have always found Gosling deeply unimpressive and exceedingly annoying. His style is to dress up sneery arrogance in a coat of less than convincing son-of-the-soil pathos. The result is as nauseating as anything the BBC (who else?) ever produced.