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After Lord Holme, who else is safeguarding TV's moral standards?(Brief Article)

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Who do you go to if you want to complain about a disgusting TV programme? To the Broadcasting Standards Commission, a fine group of people, which, until last week, was headed by Lord Holme of Cheltenham. As we all know, Holme's alleged taste for sadomasochistic practices and wild extra-marital love life was revealed by the News of the World.

That's his tastes sorted, then. But who are his colleagues? After last week's revelations, we had to wonder.

With a board of 15 setting the moral standards of broadcasting, the Diary was slightly alarmed that just under a third of those claim a pension of some sort, suggesting that some are not perhaps as au fait with "yoof" culture as they should be.

But the commission members certainly come from all walks of life. The deputy chairman, Suzanne ...

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