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This is Holy Week, the most sombre, yet dazzling seven days in the Christian year, but you wouldn't know it from our national broadcaster. The BBC, which has taken overdrive over secular events such as International Women's Day or Black History Month, is hardly preparing for Easter. The Grand National National is getting more hyped.

Justin Rowlatt has been accused by television viewers of more like an eco campaigner than one of the BBC's top journalists, dressed in scruffy jeans and sporting stubble. The unshaven climate editor's casual attire has sparked a lot of discussion among his television audience, who claim that he is lowering the desired high quality of BBC presenters. After his reports from the COP27 climate change conference in Sharm El Sheikh, the latest and most virulent criticism emerged.