Wikipedia helps us in working out how fast Lord Reith is rotating in his grave as the BBC sinks lower and lower:

Rotational speed can measure, for example, how fast a motor is running. Rotational speed and angular speed are sometimes used as synonyms, but typically they are measured with a different unit. Angular speed, however, tells the change in angle per time unit, which is measured in radians per second in the SI system. Since there are 2π radians per cycle, or 360 degrees per cycle, we can convert angular speed to rotational speed by:

omega_{cyc} = omega_{rad}/2pi,

and

omega_{cyc} = omega_{deg}/360,

where

  • omega_{cyc}, is rotational speed in cycles per second
  • omega_{rad}, is angular speed in radians per second
  • omega_{deg}, is angular speed in degrees per second

The latest abomination is this absurd PR puff on the BBC website for a new record by Nelly Furtado:

The album has gone through two titles, half-a-dozen producers, and a mountain of songs – both old and new. "In the final stages I was getting really anal about it," says Furtado…

… Mi Plan sold well internationally, allowing the Canadian artist to tour South America for the first time, but she has been absent from the US charts for five years. So it’s no surprise that The Spirit Indestructible revisits the pop hooks and colossal beats of Maneater – a song so incendiary it literally started a fire in the recording studio… (Stop …. what?! A song literally (sic) started a fire?)

… The pressure to document recording sessions was particularly difficult. "At first, I wasn’t able to write a song with the cameraman in the room," she says. "I’ve always admired people who can write like that. I’ve been there at hip-hop sessions where Kanye West will walk in and write in front of all 20 guys in his team. I’d be like, ‘oh my God!’"

… She says: "So many things have happened that have inspired me in a lot of ways to believe in humanity. "What a great year to write an album – the Arab Spring, the Occupy movement. So many things happened last year that are great fodder for songwriting."

Absolute Awfulness.