Given that a large chunk of the BBC staff are being sent to Manchester against their will as part of the Beeb’s politically correct, and spectacularly wasteful, relocation to “Media City”, jokes about the city from senior staff have not gone down well:

http://twitter.com/#!/WilliamsJon/status/106700859190149121

Foreign Editor Jon Williams has apologised, but only to his Mancunian pals. Not the legions of staff forced to move there.