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21 March 2012

Budget 2012: A great day to be a white middle-aged man sitting in a row

By Helen Lewis

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* to be fair to the Beeb, Stephanie Flanders is sitting out of shot, to Huw Edwards’s left. Still, you can see why Broadcast magazine is trying to get news programmes to use more female experts.