Simon McCoy

Every Wednesday he did an Anna Ford half way through.

He seemed to do every other Wednesday alternating with Jane Hill

The £95k cap on public service redundancy payments that started in November was scrapped last month when the government backed down in the face of legal action from trade unions. Those in the BBC who were affected by the £95k limit will have their payments made up and the limit now reverts to the old figure of £150k.

That's good, although of course by that point the people who took redundancy to get in under the bar had already gone,

You could you kindly send me a video clip of the channel to illustrate your point. I haven’t seen one. If your description is right the. I won’t be there very long. Best wishes. Simon

— Simon McCoy (@SimonMcCoyTV) March 26, 2021

Not a really important thing, but looks like someone decided to take the old BBCSimonMcCoy handle to make it look like its an official account when it doesn't seem to be, based on the tweets sent by the user not sounding like Simon at all.

I wish Twitter would prevent verified users from changing their handle or telling them that, if they change their handle, they have to create a new account in order to prevent scam accounts acquiring the old one. Sort of like what Ben Boulos did by creating a dead account on BenMBland so no one could impersonate.

It doesn't help in Simon's case that Twitter aren't doing anything about verified checkmarks any more since Simon changing his handle removed the verified checkmark which hasn't come back despite the fact its supposed to for previously verified users.

I've always thought it was a bit daft to have your employee name on your social media handle although sometimes it can't be helped.

It's hardly Simon McCoy's fault that Twitter allows fake accounts to pop up so easily.

Never said it was his fault, I just thought I'd note someone did it :p

Agree, though in the case of Simon, it looks like there was an @SimonMcCoy which got suspended so the name was taken: had it not been, Simon probably would have used that. You're right though that putting employee name in the handle just leads to potential issues down the line, but thats more of a Twitter issue for them to make things better for journalists

To be fair to Simon, Ben didn't create that account, I created it when I saw Ben changed his name to prevent this type of troll but obviously happy to send him password