What's interesting about this story ?

[SerendipityJane]

(If no one gets it by midday, I'll post what caught my eye).

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12603331/Question-Time-racism-row-BBC-Fiona-Bruce-black-guy.html

Ok I give up.

Is it the description of her ‘colourful top’?

She has her right arm in a sling because she fell off her horse apparently.

It's 12:26 and you've not come back to enlighten us @SerendipityJane

Hmm I’d like to know your thoughts OP! I’m on a packed train standing up and boiling hot and need some entertaining. I’ve read the article and watched the video. I can only think the same as a PP that there is an odd reference to her “colourful” top.

She doesn’t seem to have a black eye during QT but she’ll be wearing a lot of studio make up.

C’mon, OP? What stood out for you? I’m not usually very observant of the little ‘tells’ the Mail etc put in their stories.

It’s Daily Mail so not reading it. Just tell us.

I don't think the colourful top is hers. I think it's a typo. Her top isn't colourful for a start.

I think it should read "took a question from an audience member in a "colourful top"" to show how she normally describes audience members when asking them to speak.

Oh of course, @WeWereInParis ! 🤦‍♀️

Nothing to do with the top. Although it speaks volumes people felt that was important.

I was struck the fact that the one person who wasn't approached for a comment was the person at the centre of the "row". Were they as offended as everyone else was on their behalf ? We'll never know, because they were never asked.

I'll go back to being weird now.

Not sure why it speaks volumes tbh, about the top. I spotted it because it was in quote marks and I was skim reading the article around the Disable Your Ad Blocker pop up the Mail sticks in front of anything I read on there.

They ask for anyone who knows the audience member to contact them at the end of the article. I assumed the BBC will not (rightly) release the names of audience members and maybe the man has already told Mail journalists to do one? I expect a lot of people don’t want to engage with the Mail, for lots of reasons.

Black eye or Black guy.

It has in bold at the top, in a box halfway through, and at the bottom "do you know the man in the audience". I'm the last person to defend the DM but it sounds like they just don't know who he is, because how would they know that?

I only thought the colourful top comment was interesting because it didn't make any sense.

It doesn’t speak volumes because it’s clear they haven’t found him yet

He has posted on twitter

At the risk of offending white people I don't think many actually realise just how impolite it is to refer to someone's skin colour to their face like that.
It was very, very impolite and dismissive for her to refer to him as "that black guy". How plain rude. (As well as racist.) Normally she would say "that gentleman over there" or "the man in the blue jumper".