It’s just struck me while watching Question Time that Sarah Sands, the “consulting editor” (whatever that means) of the Daily Mail is the reincarnation of Sally Smedley from Drop the Dead Donkey. Same clothes, same hairstyle, same jewellery, same voice, same disconcerting stare.

Sally Smedley, Globelink News (left); Sarah Sands with colleagues from the Daily [...]