1. He has an upper second-class degree in Classics from Oxford. It's not Cambridge, of course, but it's not a bad place to learn.
2. Who knows?
3. Read this. The BBC is certainly no friend of his, and misses no opportunity to snipe. And yet...
As you're British, Rob, an ass is a donkey. I think you mean "arse".
Jeremy
I did, but I don't like using that particular word.
Regarding his degree: degrees have very little bearing on bearing. I have seen a waiter in a simple local bar tell off a customer for doing that with his feet. Regarding Oxbridge: my granddaughter and her debating partner (another female student) won the mootings thing a few years ago, beating all the other university debating teams in Britain. So there you go: Glasgow can do better than the rest. They received their awards up at Buck House...
It happened to me once early on in the career (the feet, not the award): we had a party at home and one of the guys put his feet up on a coffee table. He never came back. It's offensive, whether or not the person doing it knows.
Anyway, as joke or otherwise, he should never have gone through the motion; reveals his lack of awareness of the art of photographers and the constant guard one in his position should maintain.
Rob
