• The Guardian, Monday, February 3, 2014 2:05 PM

Tory MP Stewart Jackson put it to Mark Thompson that there is a "golden thread running through your time at the BBC – you never wrote anything down". He cited severance payments and DMI. "What did you ever write down?" Jackson added. "The ambience around your regime is not healthy." Thompson came back strongly on this point: "Please don't characterise [my time as director general] as a period where every project went badly." He cited the iPlayer and the 2012 London Olympics as major projects delivered successfully during his tenure.

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