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An author should be free to express his or her views, if they are within the law. Whether a public service broadcater funded by a licence should is an entirely different question. Could the BBC, in these days of wokery, even contemplate it.

What is odd is that the twitter thread indicates an ability to express views in a (reasonably) clear and concise manner. At least we now all know where we stand in his view of the world. Why cannot that style be used more generally in the official documentation?

God help us if it is thought necessary to explain that metaphors are not intended to be taken literally.

Talking of which, would you buy a second-hand car from the man pictured?

Don't worry. Guardian reporters can rely on hearsay evidence when it suits them. No "sources" required.

Don't worry. The only thing to remember is the acronym BBB. Bullshit baffles brains.

Much better to let them make their mistakes and then attack. Sometimes the enemy has to be lured from the trenches before they can be successfully attacked. The target is much too nebulous at the moment.

Much better to not waste time on such niceties and indicate that you know exactly what the law is and the duties which are entailed. We have too much experience of regulators and their inclinations.

You would think he would have had his legal department look up the statutory authority for such a statement, if there be one, and made more of the statutory duty.

What would that be the consequences? Promotion?

You have to pick your battles. Is this one really worth fighting? JKR is an author of second-rate children's fantasy books. Her adult books are reported to be worse. There is no reason to suppose that she is a particularly profound thinker. The same would be said of anyone who takes seriously...

What is the point of an NHS service that caters for well beings? Where do the unwell beings go? Orwell would have been proud of them.

Who has Hilda upset?

Immersive technology sounds to be what we need. Are ducking stools available on Amazon?

All publicity is good publicity.

Surely one can only take severity of original illness as a factor if cases of insidious onset are rejected.

There is a well known mountaineering book by Lionel Terray called "Conquistadors of the useless", which for some reason comes to mind. Any research involving "pain catastrophisation" should be ignored. The term is clearly judgmental and prejudicial, and is an express indication of lack of...

Future Norwegian historians may regard this period as "The Enlightningment".

...and the recollection has come to me that he thought it might be better if the guideline were pulled altogether, rather than merely paused.

It was he that NICE went to in the course of discussions about the "pause". You can check it out. ME falls within his directorate, unless it has recently changed.