"Gambaccini also condemned Moyles – who had audience of 7.3 million weekly listeners on average in the last three months of 2008 for his breakfast show – for his apparent homophobia towards the likes of singer Will Young, which he said merely reinforced negative stereotypes."

7.3 million, all of them, no doubt, included in the quarter of the population who believe that our planet is less than 10,000 years old.

Mr. Gambaccini should tread warily. He'll get the chop before the bigots.