There is no organisation on earth that is more committed to layers of management, form-filling and endless away days about how to "deliver value" from the preceding than the BBC. Yet every time it has a crisis it loses someone important; Director General Greg Dyke over the David Kelly affair, BBC1 controller Peter Fincham over The Queen promo film and now Radio 2 controller Lesley Douglas over the Brand and Ross affair. Now clearly these aren't matters of equal import, the Kelly affair (of which we haven't heard the last) being clearly the most important as he died and a war was involved. If the BBC had reacted sooner with fulsome apologies and a bit of mild discipline (buying time to fight another day) then these stories would have gone away (in the David Kelly affair it was reporter Andrew Gilligan over-egging his essentially true report). Current D-G Mark Thompson made a pretty good fist of defending the Beeb's response to Brand and Kelly, saying it had only taken them four days to move from investigation to resolution. But the Beeb, of all people, should know that in the era of 24-hour news four days is an age. As it is, Douglas has resigned and Ross has been suspended for 12 weeks, which will cost him the staggering sum of £1m. But only because he's vastly overpaid. In the meantime Andrew Sachs' granddaughter Georgina Baillie, aka exotic dancer Voluptua, former squeeze of Russell Brand, is telling all to the Sun under the ever-inspiring tutelage of Max Clifford. Russell wasn't up to much in the sack, is her opinion. Actually the ever-reliable www.popbitch.com has an interesting take on Georgina. Anyway the BBC Trust is threatening us with more 'procedures'. But it doesn't need those (with all their attendant costs), it just needs stronger producers who aren't in thrall to the 'talent.'