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The man who once said concentration camps had “swimming pools and cinemas” was interviewed as a “political commentator” on declining birthrates.

"Keyboard malfunction of the week goes to..." wrote one person after seeing the tweet.

"The fact that my existence triggers some people is testament to why we need more Maori advocates in key roles across every sector."

The veteran broadcaster also dismissed the idea a call from No 10 put pressure on the BBC to rebuke Maitlis and her team.

"When you live with it as long as I have lived with it, and you realise how corrupt it all was – and certainly what we have seen over this last Government, is just appalling, absolutely appalling.”

Britain’s ‘winter catastrophe of rising energy bills’ is the story consuming Saturday’s front pages, as the cuntry faces a bleak end of year.

"Perfectly normal morning in a perfectly normal country with a perfectly normal media," wrote James O'Brien.

“All the solutions lie at the Westminster Government’s door, yet it is silent in the face of this looming disaster.”

The journalist, who left the BBC earlier this year, said the media was often guilty of ‘normalising’ populist views in the name of balance.