here are two political correspondents, nick eardley and ben wright, talking about mr anderson on thursday. anyone who works on here would tell you that he is no stranger to controversy. he has said several controversial things, from criticising the uses of food banks, as you heard there, to remarks about the england football team taking the knee in protest at racism, something that he didn t approve of at the time. references like those to controversy , and the description of mr anderson as controversial , caught the attention of tina stowell, a conservative peer who chairs the communications committee in the house of lords and used to work at the bbc. she tweeted. .. but russ jones thought that was. ..