Having listened to the BBC World Service for forty years, from London, initially on short wave and now on digital, I can adduce a fundamental change.

Where before the broadcast output was excellent quality, newsworthy material and challenging, provocative journalism, rendered by highly educated and well-spoken men, what we hear now is jejune rubbish:

The newsreaders are all women The continuity announcers are all women The presenters are all women The matters discussed all concern women

Women interviewing women about women. 24/7.

Rape. FGM. Inequality. Patriarchy. Pay. Struggling women this and fighting women that.

The entire output of the World Service is a round-the-clock complaint from women, by women, about how women need this and deserve that and are deprived of the other. It never stops.

A once great global broadcast station has been reduced to a whining platform for women, who never shut up.

Wall-to-wall women, anguishing for the cessation of the male sex.

It never stops.