IAN HYLAND

On last night’s telly

Richard Osman’s House Of Games, BBC2

C★★★★★ ritics who claim that the BBC is no longer fulfilling the education bit of its remit should have been watching BBC2 yesterday evening.

Thanks to Richard Osman’s question setters, we now have a new family-friendly word to shout at the TV whenever the latest news from

Westminster is on: Snollygoster. Apparently, its dictionary definition is “a politician with no principles” – and while it’s tempting to say it sounds like it was plucked straight from the Eton playground, it can be applied to MPs of all parties.

It wasn’t the only new piece of information I picked up during this fourth series opener.

However, I can’t imagine I’ll get

much mileage out of the news that Kermit the frog is called Gustavo in Spain, or that 2.3 million speeding tickets were issued in the UK in 2016.

The revelation that the average UK worker has 651 unread emails in their inbox could come in handy though, especially if someone asks how many emails I’ve had from LinkedIn this month.

Away from the fascinating facts, it was pretty much business as usual at ROHOG. It remains the most basic, yet addictively playalongable* game show on British TV.

It also seems relatively Covidproof. They’ve simply moved the contestants’ chairs a little further apart.

No word on how they checked that they were at the required 2m spacing.

But I’m presuming the floor manager just asked Osman to lie down in between them.

*If snollygoster is a real word then surely I’m allowed that one.

We have a new family friendly word to shout when the news from Westminster comes on... snollygoster