Ins and outs

Simon Barnes has been sacked! It's a shame: he was the favourite sports correspondent of at least one contributor to this blog.

There's some controversy over his dismissal, but whatever the ins and outs of Barnes' disappearance from the Times, the reader of this blog is bound to ask - how come somebody like Barnes gets sacked while somebody like our favourite chess correspondent doesn't?

A Tweet suggests:

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