The appointment of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour's new leader has generated plenty of headlines and column inches since he was elected to the job on Saturday.

Many journalists and commentators have been filling newspapers, magazines and web pages with their assessment of just what this means for the party.
So here is a round-up of some of the media's reaction to the former backbencher's propulsion into the limelight.
Janet Daley, writing in the Telegraph, says Mr Corbyn's election victory was "not a good result for the Left".
"The best possible outcome for the Corbynistas would have been for their man to have been defeated by a small margin. Then he could have become the Great Lost Leader, the martyred saint who might have led his people to their true destination had he not been cheated by a cabal of…Well, you get the picture.
"As it is, one of two things will happen. Either the Parliamentary Labour Party will go momentarily quiescent while it regroups, refusing co-operation and advice to the leadership clique.
"Or else the Corbyn crew will be brought down within months by a Labour assassination squad. This will result in a decade of division within the party - but the hard Left will be particularly scarred by the viciousness of its fight to the death."
The Observer says there is "much evidence to suggest voters will resoundingly reject Corbynism in its current form if he makes it to the next election".
"History and common sense suggest that Labour only wins when voters feel they can trust the party to run the economy and to be a guardian of public spending.
"New polling published by Lord Ashcroft last week reinforces what poll after poll has suggested since the May election: voters deserted Labour for the Conservatives in 2015 because they had serious doubts about Ed Miliband and they feared a Labour government would spend and borrow too much.
"Labour has a message for the poorest, and the richest, but nothing to say to the rest of the country."
The Independent says Jeremy Corbyn's win "shows there is an appetite for change in British politics".
"He has interesting ideas for changing the way Parliament does its business. He has suggested that other members of the shadow cabinet should take turns asking questions of the prime minister in the House of Commons.
"He is not the first to promise a "new politics" or to want to end the Punch and Judy of Prime Minister's Questions, but perhaps he will be the first to succeed.
"It is not as if our political system is so perfect that it could not do with shaking up."
James Forsyth, writing in the Spectator, says Mr Corbyn's victory will change the dynamics of the next Tory leadership election - which he claims can be expected in about three years.
"Until recently, Boris Johnson's supporters argued that the Tories needed something extra for the party to win outright. Boris, who had won twice in a Labour city and had the appeal of a celebrity as well as a politician, appeared to be that something.
"But with Corbyn as Labour leader it appears that anyone sensible can beat Labour. It is no coincidence that in the past few weeks, the odds on George Osborne's leadership chances have been shortening almost as fast as Corbyn's.
"The chancellor is now, for the first time, the bookmakers' favourite."
The New York Times says Mr Corbyn's success "underlines the extent to which European political structures have been destabilized by the aftershocks of the financial crisis in 2008, with voters increasingly attracted away from the political center ground, either to the socialist left or the nationalist right".
There's plenty of doom and gloom from the Sydney Morning Herald, which says: "British Labour has now selected the wrong leader twice. First, they chose Ed Miliband over his brother David in 2010. By choosing Ed the party lurched to the left and lost the 2015 election, which the more centrist David could well have won. Now they have responded to this awful result by electing Corbyn. Expect the result in the 2020 general election to be the same as last time, if not worse."
The Hindu says that while Mr Corbyn did not detail any foreign policy during his campaign, "the newly elected leader of the Labour Party has, in his long career in politics, been associated with international movements for peace, against war and nuclear militarisation, and for human rights".
And Andrew Hammond, writing in the Gulf News, says Mr Corbyn's win "represents a political earthquake in the Westminster establishment. The aftershocks will continue for weeks to come as he seeks to move the centre of gravity of UK politics in a leftward direction".
Meanwhile, Andrew McFadyen delves into sporting history in his piece for Al Jazeera. "Jeremy Corbyn winning the Labour leadership is like Aberdeen beating Real Madrid in a European final. It really happened, but you have to pinch yourself to believe it is true," he says.
In the New Statesman, Laurie Penny says the argument that Jeremy Corbyn is unelectable is being made by "three candidates who can't even win an election against Jeremy Corbyn.
"Their arguments are backed by two former prime ministers: Gordon Brown, whose main claim to fame is losing an election to the Tories in 2010, and Tony Blair, the Ghost of Bad Decisions Past.
"Corbyn, however, has been re-elected by the people of Islington North consistently since 1983 and, like Bernie Sanders in the US, seems as surprised as anyone to suddenly be reaping the rewards of a lifetime of sticking to his principles - principles that once put Corbyn on the moderate left of Labour and now make him look, at least in the estimation of much of the press, like the nightmare offspring of Che Guevara and Emma Goldman dressed up in a Stalin costume.
"And all for proposing a modest increase in the top rate of income tax."
Jeremy Corbyn's "triumph", says the Morning Star, is cause for celebration "for everyone who fights for a better world".
"Corbyn's mandate to lead the Labour Party is unshakeable.
"And the enthusiasm he inspires wherever he goes — packing out halls at rallies in every corner of Britain over the past few months — shows that he is far and away the most popular politician in Britain today.
"His win is a tremendous step forward for the party and the movement. In itself, it changes Britain for the better.
"It means the government will not be able to pursue its attacks on our public services, rights at work and living standards without encountering principled opposition on every front."
Gordon Brown's former aide Damian McBride writes in the Mail on Sunday that Jeremy Corbyn, MP for Islington North, may be the "best thing since Clement Attlee".
"The last Labour leader to represent an inner London seat, indeed the last leader of any major party to do so, was in his 60s by the time he became Prime Minister. He was unfashionable, disdainful of the media and he stood on a platform that promoted peace and investment in public services and housing, even with the country facing massive debts.
"Clement Attlee went on to be Labour's greatest Prime Minister. And while few may believe that Jeremy Corbyn can follow in his footsteps as he slips into the leader's shoes today, one thing is for sure: He comes from the right place."
Labour grandee Peter Mandelson writes in the Sunday Times that there may not be an "immediate, dramatic collapse" of support following Mr Corbyn's appointment.
"Many voters may even be attracted initially by Corbyn's populism and anti-Establishment pitch. But that is not the same as deciding he should be Britain's next prime minister.
"The danger is that Labour simply decides to muddle through, resigning ourselves to our fate rather than doing anything big enough to alter it. Miliband's failed '35% strategy' would seem ambitious in comparison and we would quietly slide into history."
Professor Charles Lees, who is professor of politics at the University of Bath, writes in the Huffington Post that the most intriguing aspect of the Labour leadership outcome is how the new deputy Tom Watson play his role.
"Watson is a party insider insider and - many would argue - a bit of a political thug. He has the power to either make Corbyn's task harder than it needs to be or to bring the party machine behind him in the name of unity.
"And if, in a few years time, it is clear that Corbyn is leading Labour to disaster, I wonder what role Watson will play as Corbyn's opponents try to remember where they buried the political hatchets?"
The Sun on Sunday's leader comment says Mr Corbyn's appointment is "hard to believe".
"Yet his blunt Marxism appeals to Leftie voters sick of appealing to the 'centre'. His cartoonish policies seem new to the young and naive only because they weren't born the last time anyone was foolish enough to spout them.
"His policies would be catastrophic: leaving Nato, printing money and causing rampant inflation, downgrading our forces to a home guard, re-opening mines and so on.
"He began yesterday as he means to go on, with deranged attacks on the media, whom the Left always blame for their election defeats."
Kevin Maguire has an enthusiastic piece in the Mirror, saying Mr Corbyn's win was "sensational, stunning, seismic, stupendous - pick any superlative you like".
"Jez he Did. Easily. With a thumping majority on the first round. The result wasn't even close. Corbyn walked it. Wow!
"Corbyn's message of hope and optimism energised and excited Labour, reviving the party by dragging it from its knees after a crushing election defeat.
"Now its most Left-wing leader in recent times deserves his chance to succeed."


Burnley will again be without midfielder Jeff Hendrick, who is serving a three-game ban.

Robbie Brady is also unavailable as he is cup-tied, having played for Norwich in the FA Cup earlier this season.
Lincoln City have no fresh injury problems but Lee Beevers remains out with a long-term knee injury.
Joe Ward, who was ineligible against parent club Brighton in the last round, is available again but fellow on-loan winger Josh Ginnelly is cup-tied.
Jonathan Pearce: "Can Lincoln become the first non-league club to reach the last eight of the FA Cup since QPR in 1914?
"I witnessed at first hand the ambition, drive, determination and organisation of the Imps when they beat Ipswich in the third round.
"The Cowley brothers look a fine management team in the making. Their team will work until they drop.
"But Burnley have lost just three of their last 29 home games; Sean Dyche should be a candidate for manager of the year and, if he picks his strongest available team, they should have too much - but it'll be tight."
Burnley manager Sean Dyche: "You have to be mentally prepared for the fact there's 11 out there trying to beat you and not take it for granted because they're that many places below you.
"There's not a divine right to win football matches, you have to earn everything you get."
Lincoln manager Danny Cowley: "It's a tough test for us, they are an outstanding team at home and it will be a monumental task for us to get a win.
"It's a one in one hundred chance of winning because we have to match them technically and tactically.
"But we have to go there believing we can and will be that one game in one hundred."
I think that Lincoln, more than fellow National League side Sutton, are the real success story of the FA Cup so far...
Burnley away is probably one of the worst draws they can have, though.
Prediction: 2-0
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An inquiry has been launched after an elderly man died a following a fire in a Gwynedd home, North Wales Fire and Rescue Service has said.

Crews were called to the house in Bowydd Road, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, at 21:30 GMT on Thursday after reports of the blaze.
The man was rescued but pronounced dead at the scene.
Police and fire officers are investigating the cause of the blaze.


Interest has been shown in buying a Harris Tweed mill on the Isle of Lewis which has been on the market for the past year.

An Edinburgh-based private equity investment company has noted an interest.
Sixteen people are employed at the mill in Carloway.
There were concerns at the start of this year that the mill could go into administration.


Teenager Toby Harries won the men's 200m title at the Indoor British Championships in Sheffield.

The 17-year-old finished strongly to win in 21.33 seconds from Ben Snaith, in second, and third-placed David Lima.
"I didn't even think I would make the final so to get the gold medal is literally breathtaking," said Harries.
Adelle Tracey, 22, caused an upset by winning the women's 800m, as Leah Barrow was second ahead of Lynsey Sharp and Jenny Meadows.
Tracey, one of six teenagers to light the Olympic flame at the London 2012 opening ceremony, said: "I'll be so happy to wear my first senior vest and to do it so early in the season is amazing.
"I'm working part time as a freelance hair and make-up artist and it's good because it fits around my training. I do prosthetics and model making as well, so it's very diverse.
"I did Lenny Waite's wedding this summer and Andy Vernon's wife and Gemma Hillier-Moses (all fellow athletes), because it works very well with training, it's just one morning. But I've done stuff for Dr Who and Top Gear."
The event is being used to select the Great Britain team for the World Indoors in Portland from 17-20 March.
Following the first day of the trials on Saturday, there were 17 finals on Sunday and selectors will meet on Monday before naming the team on Tuesday.
In the women's events, European champion Tiffany Porter triumphed in the 60m hurdles with a time of 7.98 seconds as Serita Solomon came in second and Lucy Hatton in third.
Hannah England eased to 1500m victory, while Louise Bloor claimed the 200m crown and Meghan Beesley won the 400m final.
Sinead Gutzmore was already in first place in the triple jump and reached a 13.35m personal best with her last effort to round off her win.
Stephanie Twell earned 3,000m victory as Bethan Davies set a national record of 12 minutes 44.99 seconds to win the 3,000m walk race.
Jazmin Sawyers set a personal best of 6.67m to win the long jump.
In the men's races, there were wins for Nigel Levine in the 200m, Jamie Webb in the 800m and Charlie Grice in the 1500m.
Meanwhile, Scott Lincoln won the shot, Chris Baker the high jump, and Luke Cutts the pole vault.
Tom Bosworth's 10 minutes 58.21 seconds in the 3,000 walk final was also a national record.
Paralympic champion Aled Davies was competing in the shot put and improved his own World record.
The 24-year-old Welshman, who competes in the F42 category, managed 16.14m with his penultimate throw against his able-bodied rivals, finishing fifth.


A man who went into a mental health charity and assaulted staff before keeping two women hostage has been jailed for more than four years.

Michal Malecki, 31, admitted false imprisonment and wounding after storming into the Bita Pathways centre on Alcester Street in the Digbeth area of Birmingham in August.
One of the women he held hostage needed stitches to her arm after Malecki cut her with scissors.
The siege lasted for nearly five hours.
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About 20 members of staff, 100 service users and 10 students in the building were moved from the centre to the nearby Spotted Dog pub while police negotiators tried to persuade Malecki to release the women.
Shortly before he went into the charity he had been reported as "behaving erratically" in a nearby bus station, pushing a till off a counter and trying to smash a display cabinet.
He then went outside and jumped on and rode on the bonnet of a moving car before going into the Pathways centre.
At the time, the chief executive of Pathways, Erica Barnett, said the man "was not connected in any way" to the charity and was "a total stranger off the street."
As well as wounding and false imprisonment, Malecki pleaded guilty to the possession of class B drugs and two counts of common assault. He was jailed for four years and three months.
Det Ch Insp Sean Russell from West Midlands Police, said: "Malecki was responsible for a terrifying attack on staff at a charity he had no connection with. I am satisfied that he has been made to pay for his crimes.
"I hope that his jailing will mean the victims of his crimes can start to move forward knowing their attacker has been brought to justice."


France will raise war pensions for its African war veterans to the same level as those of their French comrades, Nicolas Sarkozy has said.

The French president told the leaders of 12 former colonies: "There are debts which are never extinguished. It was time to recognise that."
Hundreds of thousands of Africans served France in two world wars and the Algerian war of independence.
Tens of thousands are still alive and will benefit from new pension laws.
However, the BBC's Tidiane Sy in Senegal says there has not been an enthusiastic response to the announcement.
He says most of the war veterans who campaigned for equal pensions are no longer alive, while others are so frail they are no longer able to enjoy the extra money.
Mr Sarkozy said his government had agreed at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday to introduce "perfect equality" of military pensions for veterans of French forces - regardless of what country they lived in.
France had previously resisted paying the same pension to veterans of its armed forces who did not live in French territory, though many are in countries that were French colonies at the time of their service.
The new military pension law will come into force next January at the latest, it is reported.
Mr Sarkozy made the announcement on Tuesday at a lunch in Paris for the 12 leaders, who are in France to take part in its national celebrations on Wednesday.
It comes after a ruling in May from France's constitutional council.
It decided that the long-established practice of paying veterans from former colonies between one-tenth and one-fifth of the benefits given to French soldiers was illegal.
One of the African leaders at the lunch, Mali's President Amadou Toumani Toure, called it a "historic decision".
African veterans, who also fought in the Indochina wars of 1945-54, saw their pensions frozen at the end of the 1950s.
War veterans in other countries have fought similar battles. In Britain, retired Gurkhas have campaigned over unequal pension rights.


Ahead of its exit from the European Union, the UK is currently negotiating to secure free trade agreements with several countries, but what does this kind of deal actually mean?

When two countries agree to a free trade agreement, that does not normally mean the complete free movement of goods and services between their economies, with no taxes, quotas or barriers of any kind.
If you think about it that is pretty obvious, for instance in agriculture countries have subsidies for farmers, environmental rules, food standards and a dozen other policies.
To ensure free trade of agricultural products all those policies would have to be coordinated, if not exactly the same.
This is why the issue of chlorinated chicken is suddenly in the headlines; we don't allow it, the Americans do.
It is a barrier to free trade and if we cannot agree on a compromise then any free trade deal between the US and UK will not fully cover trade in chickens.
The same can be said about  genetically-modified (GM) crops, where America thinks the EU approvals process is far too complicated.
And what about agricultural subsidies for farmers?
You can be pretty sure farmers on both sides of any free trade deal will argue about whether the other side subsidises its farmers unfairly, well, until the cows come home.
It is not just agriculture that is affected, removing tariffs on manufactured goods is normally considered the easy part of any trade deal, but what about chemical regulations, car safety and drug testing, to name just three examples?
The reason that free trade deals involve years of talks, dozens of expert negotiators, and endless meetings on technical details is because such issues are very complicated and involve a host of issues.
In the end they tend to come down to a trade off.
The proposed free trade deal between the EU and Japan has, for example, been described as a "cars for cheese" deal.
It's an over simplification, but the fact is a major part of the deal is that the EU will allow cars made in Japan to be sold in the EU more easily, and the Japanese will reduce tariffs on European cheeses (and other dairy products).
That doesn't sound like much but it is important. Many Japanese carmakers have plants in Europe precisely because it used to be difficult for them to sell Japanese built cars there, as they had to pay a 10% tariff.
Meanwhile, the Japanese government has had some of the highest agricultural subsides, tariffs and other barriers, because it has long sought to protect its inefficient farmers.
Both sides will win easier access to each others markets, but it is still not totally free trade.
For instance some cheeses will be covered by quotas (a limit on how much can be exported to Japan), and car tariffs will take years to totally come down.
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Also non-tariff barriers are still an important factor in limiting trade.
So Japan and the UK, for instance, have different legal systems, educational qualifications, insurance rules, banking regulation and a thousand other differences.
As you will have spotted, many of the differences are not to do with manufactured goods, which can be relatively easy to sell in other markets and changed if necessary to comply with local rules, but they do hinder free trade in services.
In the UK services make up 80% of the economy so agreeing a free trade deal on services is very important.
It is however rather difficult for it to be total.
British lawyers are just not going to be allowed to work in Brazilian courts if they haven't passed local exams and speak Portuguese, for example. Things such as insurance contracts have to abide by local laws and rules, while British plumbers may not get much work in China if their qualifications are not recognised.
But on top of that there are nearly always politically important sectors which can lobby national governments to continue to protect them.
India's army of small retailers are well protected by politicians from foreign competition, or governments can demand the politically impossible.
As part of a future free trade deal, India would probably want the UK to open up immigration from India especially for students; something the government is unlikely to do as reducing immigration is one of its principle post Brexit policies.
It all means that free trade agreements do not necessarily cover everything.
Also although many economists believe such agreements encourage and increase trade between countries, improve efficiency and investment and help economies grow; others think they have serious downsides including driving out smaller local companies, reducing tax revenue and undercutting working conditions.
Whoever is right free trade agreements do not do what they say on the tin.
They do not make all trade free and frictionless; maybe they should be called "freer trade agreements"?


The family of an elderly couple found murdered in their County Armagh home have said the "awful events" have deprived them of two wonderful people.

A relative found the bodies of Michael and Marjorie Cawdery, who were both 83, in their Upper Ramone Park home in Portadown on Friday afternoon.
Police said they had been killed in a "very brutal attack". They are reported to have been stabbed.
A 40-year-old man was arrested in the Springfields area of Portadown.
He is still being questioned about the murders.
In a statement the Cawdery family said: "The awful and incomprehensible events of Friday 26 May have deprived our family of two wonderful people, Michael and Marjorie, who were our father, mother, brother, sister and grandparents.
"We thank the police for their prompt response and professional actions. We also thank everyone who has expressed sympathy in whatever way and offered help."
Police have said they received a report of a man breaking into a car in Upper Ramone Park shortly after midday on Friday.
Det Supt Kevin Geddes said: "Police were called to an address in the Upper Ramone Park area of the town at around 3.40pm yesterday afternoon. On arrival, officers found the bodies of Michael and Marjorie.
"Earlier in the day, at around 12.20pm, we had a report of a male breaking into a car in the Upper Ramone Park area.
"We are appealing for anyone who saw any suspicious activity in the area between 11am and 5pm yesterday to get in touch with police on the non-emergency number 101.
"The family car belonging to the deceased, a grey Renault Kango van, registration NJZ 6101, was taken from the house and later found at around 5pm in the Edenderry Gardens area.
"We need to know the movements of this car from the time it left Upper Ramone Park until it was recovered in Edenderry Gardens."
He said detectives remain in the area and will have extra patrols in and around Portadown.


Edinburgh was the driest place in the UK in April despite Scotland as a whole being the wettest.

Only 3.2mm of rain fell at Gogarbank and 4mm in the Botanic Gardens - 7% and 10% of the respective monthly average.
According to data from the Met Office Midlothian, Fife and Middlesex, were the driest historical counties this month with just 12% of the rainfall expected in April.
Sutherland was the wettest part of Scotland with 36% above average.
The UK as a whole experienced just 47% of the expected rainfall.
Scotland was the wettest area of the UK with 65mm and southern England the driest area with 16mm.


Native dog breeds such as the English setter are being pushed towards extinction by the growing popularity of more exotic dogs such as huskies and Chihuahuas, new figures suggest.

The setter has appeared for the first time on the UK Kennel Club's list of vulnerable breeds.
Figures show a two thirds drop in puppy registrations in the last decade.
The Chihuahua, popularised by celebrity owners like Paris Hilton, saw a 25% increase in registrations last year.
But the celebrity effect appears to have been positive for one native breed - the Cardigan Welsh corgi, whose skyrocketing numbers have been ascribed to links with the Queen and the Royal Wedding.
Caroline Kisko, secretary of the Kennel Club said: "Celebrities, popular culture and fashion play a big part in today's society and unfortunately, dogs are not immune from our fickle tastes.
"The latest victim is the English setter, a wonderful and loyal breed, while the number of Siberian huskies has more than trebled in this country in the last 10 years."
Fran Grimsdell from Norfolk, who breeds English setters, told BBC News: "The thing that saddens me is that we're getting people buying puppies, but they're nearly all people who have already owned English setters.
"English setters have got a fantastic nature... I would say that they are sensitive, terribly affectionate, loyal and wonderfully elegant in appearance. They are good with children. They can be a bit wilful... but I love that."
Thought to be one of the oldest native breeds, the setter's history stretches back at least 200 years to dogs used for hunting upland game birds. The medium-sized breed - with its characteristic flecked coat - is regarded as a good family pet, but also requires a large home and lots of exercise.
With 234 registrations last year, the setter joins 24 other dogs considered to be at risk of extinction on the club's list of Native Vulnerable Breeds. British and Irish breeds are added when puppy registrations drop below 300 in a year.
In 2011, some 3,000 dogs were registered across the 25 vulnerable breeds. Chihuahuas, meanwhile, saw more than 6,000 registrations.
*Percentage change on 2010
Arguably the most endangered breed of all is the otterhound, a large rough-coated dog with a loud, baying call. There were just 38 otterhound registrations last year (a decline of 33% on 2010).
Pam Marston-Pollock, chair of the UK Otterhound Club, said there were now just three breeders in the UK. An estimated 600 of the dogs remain worldwide, but only a fraction of these are suitable for breeding.
"As far as the show world is concerned, we don't have many younger people [involved with] the breed. The established breeders who have been around for 30 years are either dying off or aren't keeping as many hounds," Ms Marston-Pollock told BBC News.
"It's a sign of the times generally that keeping substantially sized hounds is quite expensive."
She added: "We're obviously conscious that we've got a narrow gene pool... we've had a meeting to discuss the possibility of bringing in an outcross with [another breed] to broaden our gene pool."
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Such approaches have been successful in the case of Dalmatians, which can be prone to kidney or bladder stones. By outbreeding with a pointer, one Dalmatian breeder was able to remove the trait responsible.
Other vulnerable native dogs include the Dandie Dinmont terrier (98 registrations, down 35% on 2010) and the Skye terrier (44 registrations in 2011, up 19% on the previous year). The Skye terrier was immortalised in the story of Greyfriars Bobby, the 19th Century Edinburgh dog that guarded the grave of its former owner for 14 years.
Breeders say parts of the country's heritage will be lost if native breeds are left to die out.
Ms Kisko said the needs of exotic breeds were poorly understood by many owners. As a result, she said, the Kennel Club had seen an increase in the number of exotic dogs coming in to breed rescue societies when owners realise they are unable to give them the exercise, grooming or other care that they need.
One example is the Afghan hound, which requires about two hours exercise per day and daily grooming. In 2009-2010, 43% of all Afghan hounds registered with the Kennel Club ended up in breed rescue centres.
The impact of celebrity may have had a positive effect on at least one native vulnerable breed, the Cardigan Welsh corgi. Registrations shot up by 134% in 2011. This has been put down to the "Royal Wedding effect" and the breed's close relationship with the Pembroke Welsh corgi, owned by the Queen.
Harvey Locke, a former president of the British Veterinary Association (BVA) told BBC News: "There are more than 200 pedigree dogs... we want to do everything we can to encourage responsible dog breeding.
"We are obviously against unscrupulous ones who breed [only] for profit. Everybody suffers there: the people who buy the puppies suffer and the dogs suffer." He urged some breeders to move away from selecting for extreme features and called on prospective dog owners to seek advice from veterinary surgeons.
Paul.Rincon-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk


Chelsea have completed a £12m move for 19-year-old St Etienne centre-back Kurt Zouma.

The France Under-21 player has agreed a five-and-a-half-year deal with the Blues, but will stay at St Etienne on loan for the rest of the season.
Zouma has made 12 Ligue 1 appearances for the French side this season.
Born in Lyon, Zouma joined St Etienne as a 15-year-old in 2009 before turning professional two years later.
He has made 52 appearances for the club, scoring four goals.
St Etienne president Roland Romeyer had previously said the player would not move in the transfer window.
Meanwhile, Blues winger Gael Kakuta has joined Lazio.
The 22-year-old, who has made just one Premier League start for Chelsea, moves to Serie A on loan until the end of the season.
He embarks on a fifth loan spell away from Stamford Bridge having previously spent time at Fulham and Bolton Wanderers, and with Dijon in France, before his time with Vitesse Arnhem in Holland.
Lazio are 10th in the Serie A table ahead of Sunday's match away to Chievo.


Actor Alan Rickman, known for films including Harry Potter, Die Hard and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, has died at the age of 69, his family has said.

The star had been suffering from cancer, a statement said.
He became one of Britain's best-loved acting stars thanks to roles including Professor Snape in the Harry Potter films and Hans Gruber in Die Hard.
Harry Potter author JK Rowling led the tributes, describing him as "a magnificent actor and a wonderful man".
She wrote on Twitter: "There are no words to express how shocked and devastated I am to hear of Alan Rickman's death."
She added: "My thoughts are with [Rickman's wife] Rima and the rest of Alan's family. We have all lost a great talent. They have lost part of their hearts."
Emma Thompson, who appeared with Rickman in productions including Love Actually and was directed by him in The Winter Guest, said he was "the finest of actors and directors" and "the ultimate ally".
She wrote in a statement: "Alan was my friend and so this is hard to write because I have just kissed him goodbye.
"What I remember most in this moment of painful leave-taking is his humour, intelligence, wisdom and kindness.
"His capacity to fell you with a look or lift you with a word. The intransigence which made him the great artist he was - his ineffable and cynical wit, the clarity with which he saw most things, including me, and the fact that he never spared me the view. I learned a lot from him."
She added: "He was, above all things, a rare and unique human being and we shall not see his like again."
Announcing his death on Thursday, a family statement said: "The actor and director Alan Rickman has died from cancer at the age of 69. He was surrounded by family and friends."
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe said Rickman was "undoubtedly one of the greatest actors I will ever work with".
He wrote on Google Plus: "Working with him at such a formative age was incredibly important and I will carry the lessons he taught me for the rest of my life and career.
"Film sets and theatre stages are all far poorer for the loss of this great actor and man."
Sir Michael Gambon, who appeared with Alan Rickman in Harry Potter as well as on stage, told BBC Radio 4 he was "a great friend".
He added: "Everybody loved Alan.  He was always happy and fun and creative and very, very funny. He had a great voice, he spoke wonderfully well.
"He was intelligent, he wrote plays, he directed a play. So he was a real man of the theatre and the stage and that's how I think of Alan."
Director Ang Lee, who cast Rickman opposite Kate Winslet in 1995's Sense and Sensibility, called him a "brilliant actorâ€¦ a soulful actorâ€¦ [and] a great human being."
1946-2016
41 when he played Hans Gruber in Die Hard, his breakthrough film performance
68 film credits to his name
16 awards, including an Emmy, golden globe, and BAFTA
Actor Richard E Grant wrote on Twitter: "Farewell my friend. Your kindness and generosity ever since we met in LA in 1987 and ever since is incalculable."
TV star and Bafta ceremony host Stephen Fry wrote: "What desperately sad news about Alan Rickman. A man of such talent, wicked charm and stunning screen and stage presence. He'll be sorely missed."
Actor David Morrissey also paid tribute. He said: "So sad to hear the news of Alan Rickman. A wonderful actor and lovely man. Tragic news."
The London-born star began his career in theatre, including with the Royal Shakespeare Company, before winning roles in TV dramas like Smiley's People and The Barchester Chronicles in the 1980s.
His performance as the manipulative seducer the Vicomte de Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses on Broadway in 1986 brought him the first of two Tony Award nominations.
It also brought him to the attention of Die Hard producer Joel Silver, who offered him his film debut as a result.
He went on to become best known for playing screen villains - including the Sheriff of Nottingham in 1991's Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, for which he won a Bafta award, and Judge Turpin opposite Johnny Depp in 2007's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
But he showed his gentler side in films like 1990's Truly Madly Deeply, in which he played Juliet Stevenson's ghost lover and which also earned him a Bafta nomination.
Further Bafta nominations came for his roles as Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility and the calculating Irish politician Eamon de Valera in 1996's Michael Collins.
The following year, he won a Golden Globe for best actor in a miniseries or television film for the title role in Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny.
Other film credits ranged from Tim Robbins' 1992 political satire Bob Roberts to Richard Curtis's 2003 romantic comedy Love, Actually, 1999's sci-fi spoof Galaxy Quest and the voice of the Blue Caterpillar in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.
He also moved behind the camera in 1997 directing Thompson and her mother, Phyllida Law, in The Winter Guest.
Two years ago, he also directed period saga A Little Chaos, in which he co-starred with Kate Winslet.
Meanwhile, he continued to be a major presence on the stage in London and New York.
Another Tony nomination came for Private Lives in 2002, in which he appeared opposite Lindsay Duncan on Broadway following a transfer from London.
He recently revealed he had married Rima Horton in secret last year. The couple had been together since he was just 19 and she was 18.


The BBC's Shane Harrison looks at how the Republic of Ireland's vote in favour of legalising same-sex marriage caps an extraordinary week for the country.

The Republic has become the first country in the world to introduce same-sex marriage in a popular vote, just days after the Prince of Wales visited Mullaghmore in County Sligo where his great-uncle Lord Mountbatten was murdered by the IRA in 1979.
While in Sligo, Prince Charles also visited the grave of the Irish poet, WB Yeats, under the shadow of Ben Bulben mountain in Drumcliffe cemetery.
The poet was born 150 years ago and many of his verses were quoted during the Royal visit.
Nearly every Irish student learns the lines from the poem September 1913: "Romantic Ireland is dead and gone, it's with O'Leary in the grave."
O'Leary was an old Irish revolutionary who wanted to free Ireland from British rule.
The referendum result speaks volumes about a changed Republic of Ireland and it is tempting to write: "Catholic Ireland is dead and gone."
It was the revelation that Bishop Eamon Casey had fathered a child that first started a process which, for many, undermined the authority of the Catholic Church.
Soon afterwards a tsunami of revelations about child sex abuse involving priests and cover-ups by bishops further and greatly diminished the standing of the church hierarchy in a country that is nominally 85% Catholic, although empty churches and declining Mass attendance tell another story.
It was only in 1993 that homosexual acts were decriminalised; civil partnership was introduced in 2010.
Throughout the campaign, bishops preached against a "Yes" vote for same-sex marriage and indicated their deep unhappiness with the government's proposal.
They were joined by social conservatives and Catholic lay groups in expressing their view that the proposal undermined the traditional family of a husband, a wife and children.
But only three of the 166 members of the Irish parliament publicly supported that view and urged a "No" vote.
Against the hierarchy stood a coalition of all the main political parties, gay rights activists and their families and supporters.
It is noticeable that the "Yes" vote was strongest in more urban areas and among younger voters who study the African-American struggle for civil rights for their state exams.
And it was also noticeable in conversations how many of them were influenced by that struggle for equality in Saturday's result.
Thousands returned from abroad to vote, and thousands more delayed their working holidays after finishing university exams to register their support for the government's proposal.
Social media was abuzz with their stories.
Some "No" campaigners feared the worst from early on; some privately said that even if they won this time they knew they were battling against the tide of history because such was the strength of feeling among young people that there would be another referendum and it would then pass.
Today, though, is not the first recent indication of the diminished standing of the Catholic Church.
Two years ago, the bishops failed to stop the government and politicians from introducing legislation to allow for abortions in cases where there was a credible suicide threat from a woman if she was forced to continue with her pregnancy.
And in many ways the same-sex marriage referendum is just one stage in church-state relations before the main confrontation - the repeal of the eighth amendment to the constitution that gives an equal right to life to the mother and the unborn.
The referendum on this in 1983 was extraordinarily divisive and left a bitter taste in the mouths of many involved.
While another referendum on repealing the amendment is unlikely until after the next election, both sides are already preparing for it.
Those wanting change argue that it currently prevents terminations in cases of fatal foetal abnormality, where the foetus cannot survive outside the womb, and where a pregnancy has resulted from rape or incest.
Those seeking the retention of the amendment - and it's not just the Catholic Church and other Christian institutions - argue from a human rights point of view that the foetus or unborn child also has a right to life.
But that's all for another day.
I began with WB Yeats but I'll finish with, perhaps, the best known Irish gay man, Oscar Wilde.
The phrase "the love that dare not speak its name" comes from a poem by his lover Lord Alfred Douglas and was mentioned at Wilde's gross indecency trial that would see him jailed.
After the same-sex referendum result, not any longer, Oscar, not any longer.


Aung San Suu Kyi led the National League for Democracy (NLD) to a majority win in Myanmar's first openly contested election in 25 years in November 2015.

The win came five years to the day since she was released from 15 years of house arrest.
Although the Myanmar constitution forbids her from becoming president because she has children who are foreign nationals, Ms Suu Kyi is widely seen as de facto leader.
Her official title is state counsellor. The president, Htin Kyaw, is a close confidante.
The 70-year-old spent much of her time between 1989 and 2010 in some form of detention because of her efforts to bring democracy to then military-ruled Myanmar (also known as Burma) - a fact that made her an international symbol of peaceful resistance in the face of oppression.
In 1991, "The Lady" as she's known, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the committee chairman called her "an outstanding example of the power of the powerless".
However, after her release and subsequent political career, Ms Suu Kyi has come in for criticism by some rights groups for what they say has been a failure to speak up for Myanmar's minority groups during a time of ethnic violence in parts of the country.
Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of Myanmar's independence hero, General Aung San.
He was assassinated during the transition period in July 1947, just six months before independence, when Ms Suu Kyi was only two.
In 1960 she went to India with her mother Daw Khin Kyi, who had been appointed Myanmar's ambassador in Delhi.
Four years later she went to Oxford University in the UK, where she studied philosophy, politics and economics. There she met her future husband, academic Michael Aris.
After stints of living and working in Japan and Bhutan, she settled in the UK to raise their two children, Alexander and Kim, but Myanmar was never far from her thoughts.
When she arrived back in Rangoon (Yangon) in 1988 - to look after her critically ill mother - Myanmar was in the midst of major political upheaval.
Thousands of students, office workers and monks took to the streets demanding democratic reform.
"I could not as my father's daughter remain indifferent to all that was going on," she said in a speech in Rangoon on 26 August 1988, and was propelled into leading the revolt against the then-dictator, General Ne Win.
Inspired by the non-violent campaigns of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King and India's Mahatma Gandhi, she organised rallies and travelled around the country, calling for peaceful democratic reform and free elections.
But the demonstrations were brutally suppressed by the army, who seized power in a coup on 18 September 1988. Ms Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest the following year.
The military government called national elections in May 1990 which Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD convincingly won - however, the junta refused to hand over control.
Ms Suu Kyi remained under house arrest in Rangoon for six years, until she was released in July 1995.
She was again put under house arrest in September 2000, when she tried to travel to the city of Mandalay in defiance of travel restrictions.
She was released unconditionally in May 2002, but just over a year later she was put in prison following a clash between her supporters and a government-backed mob.
She was later allowed to return home - but again under effective house arrest.
During periods of confinement, Ms Suu Kyi busied herself studying and exercising. She meditated, worked on her French and Japanese language skills, and relaxed by playing Bach on the piano.
At times she was able to meet other NLD officials and selected diplomats.
But during her early years of detention she was often in solitary confinement. She was not allowed to see her two sons or her husband, who died of cancer in March 1999.
The military authorities had offered to allow her to travel to the UK to see him when he was gravely ill, but she felt compelled to refuse for fear she would not be allowed back into the country.
She was sidelined from Myanmar's first elections in two decades on 7 November 2010 but released from house arrest six days later.
Her son Kim Aris was allowed to visit her for the first time in a decade.
As the new government embarked on a process of reform, Aung San Suu Kyi and her party rejoined the political process.
When by-elections were held in April 2012, to fill seats vacated by politicians who had taken government posts, she and her party contested seats, despite reservations.
"Some are a little bit too optimistic about the situation," she said in an interview before the vote. "We are cautiously optimistic. We are at the beginning of a road."
She and the NLD won 43 of the 45 seats contested, in an emphatic statement of support. Weeks later, Ms Suu Kyi took the oath in parliament and became the leader of the opposition.
And the following May, she embarked on a visit outside Myanmar for the first time in 24 years, in a sign of apparent confidence that its new leaders would allow her to return.
However, Ms Suu Kyi became frustrated with the pace of democratic development.
In November 2014, she warned that Myanmar had not made any real reforms in the past two years and warned that the US - which dropped most of its sanctions against the country in 2012 - had been "overly optimistic" in the past.
And in June, a vote in Myanmar's parliament failed to remove the army's veto over constitutional change. Ms Suu Kyi is also barred from running for president because her two sons hold British not Burmese passports - a ruling she says is unfair.
In 2015, the military-backed civilian government of President Thein Sein said a general election would be held in November of that year - the first openly contested election in 25 years.
Soon after the 8 November vote it became clear the NLD was headed for a landslide victory.
On 13 November, the NLD secured the required two-thirds of the contested seats in parliament to win a majority in what was widely regarded as a largely fair vote - although there were some reports of irregularities.
However, hundreds of thousands of people - including the Muslim Rohingya minority, who are not recognised as citizens - were denied voting rights.
Since taking power, the NLD, and Ms Suu Kyi in particular, have faced international criticism for ignoring abuses against the Rohingya in western Rakhine state.
Some analysts say that by challenging the military on the issue, the young government could put itself in a precarious position, but Ms Suu Kyi also faces little domestic pressure to help the Rohingya.


US President Barack Obama has condemned the twin bombing at the Boston Marathon as a "terrorist act".

He said the attack, near the finishing line, was "heinous and cowardly", but that the motive and culprit were not yet known and no-one was in custody.
Three people were killed, including an eight-year-old boy, and more than 170 injured by the bombs.
The FBI, which is running the investigation, has said there are no "known additional threats" to Boston.
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick says an interfaith service will be held for the victims on Thursday morning, attended by the president.
By Mark MardellNorth America editor
In his first briefing after Monday's attacks, Mr Obama had refrained from referring to terror attacks - a choice of words that drew criticism from some quarters.
But on Tuesday he said: "Any time bombs are used to target innocent civilians it is an act of terrorism."
He stressed it was not yet known whether an organisation - either domestic or foreign - or a "malevolent individual" was responsible, nor what the motive might have been.
"Everything else at this point is speculation," he said.
"It will take time... but we will find whoever harmed our citizens and we will bring them to justice."
The first explosion went off close to the finish line at about 14:50 local time (18:50 GMT) on Monday.
Seconds later, as rescuers were rushing to help the injured, another explosion went off nearby.
There were early reports that other suspect devices had been found, but speaking in Boston on Tuesday, Mr Patrick said it was "important to clarify that two, and only two, explosive devices were found yesterday".
Mr Patrick said all other suspect parcels had been examined and discounted.
The FBI said it had no advance warning of a specific threat to the marathon.
Richard DesLauriers, the agent in charge of the investigation, moved to reassure the public, saying there was no longer any "known imminent physical threat" to Boston.
Police had received "voluminous tips" from the public since the bombings, he said, urging people to co-operate with investigators.
By Gordon CoreraSecurity correspondent, BBC News
If investigators have a good idea whom they are looking for, they are not letting on. Instead they are emphasising the need for methodical evidence gathering - asking the public for photos and film from the marathon and continuing to examine what are being described as fairly crude bombs.
The fact that there were only two devices increases the chance the attack is the work of only one or a small number of individuals rather than a major organised, international conspiracy. What is less clear is whether this was domestic anti-government extremism - of the type seen in the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 - or someone influenced by al-Qaeda.
The victims and the country as a whole want to know who was behind this attack and what motivated them. That answer may open up further difficult debates, but for the moment the priority remains finding those responsible as soon as possible.
"We will go to the ends of the Earth to identify the subject or subjects who are responsible for this despicable crime, and we will do everything we can to bring them to justice," Mr DesLauriers said.
Police want the public to send in any videos or photographs they may have from the day.
Timothy Alban of the Massachusetts State Police said: "There have to be hundreds if not thousands of photographs or videos or observations that were made down at that finish line.
"You might not think it's significant but it might have some value to this investigation."
The type of device used in the attack has not been made public, but doctors treating the wounded have said their injuries indicate that the bombs contained metal shards and other shrapnel.
A number of victims have had limbs amputated.
George Velmahos, chief of trauma surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, where many of the wounded were taken, said some had blast wounds "as well as small metallic fragments that entered their body - pellets, shrapnel, nails".
Unnamed security sources have been quoted in US media as saying at least one of the bombs was placed inside a pressure cooker packed with ball bearings and nails. This has not been officially confirmed.
Eight-year-old Martin Richard, from the Dorchester area of the city, has been named as one of those who died.
He was at the finishing line with his mother and sister, who were both seriously injured.
"They were looking in the crowd as the runners were coming to see if they could identify some of their friends when the bomb hit," Congressman Stephen Lynch, a friend of the Richard family, told Associated Press.
He said Martin's brother and his father, Bill, were also injured.
Bill Richard released a statement thanking friends and supporters. "I ask that you continue to pray for my family as we remember Martin," it said.
Flowers and tributes were being placed outside the family's home on Tuesday.
A second victim was named in US media as Krystle Campbell, a 29-year-old restaurant manager.
Her father released a statement saying the family was devastated, AP reports.
Some 23,000 runners were taking part in this year's Boston marathon, which was being watched by hundreds of thousands of spectators.
The marathon is held on Patriots' Day, a Massachusetts state holiday which commemorates the first battles of the American Revolution in 1775.
Thomas Grilk, executive director of the Boston Athletic Association, said the race was "an integral part of the fabric and history of our community" and would go ahead next year.
"We are committed to continuing that tradition with the running of the 118th Boston Marathon in 2014, he said.
The London Marathon - the next major international marathon - is to go ahead on Sunday, with police saying they have well-rehearsed security plans.
Organisers have said they will hold a 30-second silence at the start as a mark of respect.


China is mourning the Olympic exit of Liu Xiang after he fell in the men's 110m hurdles heats, with media and netizens rallying behind the athlete.

Comments ranged from anguish and shock to an outpouring of support and concern for the injured Liu.
The athlete, who won gold in Athens in 2004, crashed at the first hurdle but got up and hopped to the finish line.
For many, it was a tragic repeat of the 2008 Beijing Games when he pulled out with an Achilles injury.
"Ah Liu Xiang, my heart is broken," said one user of the Twitter-like Sina Weibo website.
News of Liu's fall dominated the front pages of many newspapers.
Many lauded him as a hero despite his failure to progress to the final - unlike the general reaction to his withdrawal in Beijing four years ago, which spawned a slew of criticism.
"Liu Xiang fell down, but he will be our hero for ever," said one netizen, echoing the feelings of many who watched his dramatic exit.
As Liu struggled down the track, he stopped at the last hurdle and kissed it, prompting the China Daily newspaper to dub that his ''last kiss''. He was then embraced by fellow competitors and helped off the track.
''He may not have cleared any of the hurdles, but he crossed the most difficult hurdle of his life,'' the official People's Daily newspaper wrote, paying tribute to Liu's persistence.
Liu Xiang left the track in a wheelchair, after an Olympic build-up that had also been overshadowed by injury.
He left London for Leverkusen after pulling out of the Diamond League London Grand Prix 110m hurdles final on 13 July - his 29th birthday - due to muscle pain.
Reports said that Liu's right heel was protected with tape when he entered the stadium on Tuesday. After the race, Feng Shuyong, the head of China's track team told a press conference that Liu had ruptured his Achilles tendon.
"What Liu Xiang did today reflected the true Olympics spirit," state media quoted him as saying. "Winning is not so important, participation is what matters."
Liu Yandong, a top Communist Party official, had called Liu to ''express sympathy and concern'', state media reported.
The official told Liu that ''his spirit, will and attitude have deeply moved and highly inspired the whole nation", said the Xinhua news agency.
Some netizens questioned why Liu, who is one of China's top sporting icons, was competing despite his injuries.
"Liu Xiang was carrying too heavy a burden. Chinese sports officials know nothing about the Olympic spirit. For them, athletes are just machines and pawns," one comment said.
Among the outpouring of support, there were a handful of negative comments and allegations against the athlete, who is easily one of China's best-known faces, with a slew of product endorsements.
Some lambasted him for failing to do his duty by his country.
But by and large, the Chinese people's reactions reflected a level of maturity and compassion within society, said a commentary in the Chinese edition of the Global Times newspaper.
''Thank you, Liu Xiang, for all that you've given us," it said.


Fifty thousand trees have been planted at Gethin Woods, near Merthyr Tydfil.

The replanting work is to restock parts of the forest felled to tackle a disease affecting larch trees.
Specialist Welsh contractors planted 50,000 conifer trees, such as spruce and fir, which will be used by the timber industry in future decades.
Approximately 18,000 trees, a mix of 12 species like oak, birch and cherry, will also be planted.
The contractors plant each individual tree by hand and one worker can plant as many as 3,000 conifers in one day.
Source: Natural Resources Wales
The work is part of the wider planting programme by Natural Resources Wales where 3.2 million trees will be planted over the next six months.
Islwyn Jones, of Natural Resource Wales, said: "This disease has, and will continue to have, a dramatic impact on our forests in Wales with many areas still to be felled.
"The felling work is ongoing, but alongside this is our programme to replant with a mix of broadleaf and conifers for a new generation of forests.
"This more diverse mix will actually benefit us in the future as it will be more resilient to disease and the effects of climate change."


An Olympic woman marathon runner from India has alleged she was not provided water and energy drinks by Indian officials at designated stations.

OP Jaisha said she "could have died" after the women's marathon in Rio.
Jaisha, 33, finished in 89th place and collapsed after finishing the 42km (26 miles) race in two hours 47 minutes 19 seconds last week.
Indian officials denied the allegation and said Jaisha and her coach had refused refreshments.
The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) said officials in Rio were not told by the athletes or their coaches about any specific requirement for any drinks.
"It is the responsibility of the organisers to provide water and energy drinks. For that there are water and energy stations throughout the course," senior AFI official CK Valson told the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency.
"We could have provided water and energy drinks to our athletes but neither they nor their coaches informed us that they would need water and energy drinks separately."
Jaisha said she ran "in scorching heat" and there was no water available from Indian officials during the race.
"Only once in 8km did we get water [from the Rio organisers] which did not help at all. All the countries had their stalls at every 2km but our country's stall was empty," she was quoted as saying by PTI.
Jaisha had to be taken to hospital after finishing the race.
"We are supposed to be given drinks by our technical officials, it's the rule. We cannot take water from any other team. I saw the Indian board there but there was nothing," she said.
"I had a lot of problem, I fainted after the race. I was administered glucose, I thought I would die."
Jaisha said she got no response from officials when she asked why water was not provided to her at the stalls.
"I don't know who to blame for this. May be nobody realises the seriousness of a marathon, the fact that we  have to run 42km," she said.
India's Sports Minister Vijay Goel has said he will investigate the allegation.
"I'll look into this and if there was negligence of any sort, action will be taken," he told NDTV.
India finished with just two medals at the Rio Games, fewer than the six medals it won during its best-ever performance in London four years ago.


Whatever it was that Joey Barton said to Rangers team-mate Andy Halliday on the training ground the Tuesday after the 5-1 loss to Celtic can't have come as much of a surprise to anybody who knows what Barton is about.

Whatever he said subsequently to his manager, Mark Warburton, can't have come as a surprise either.
Barton has a tongue like barbed wire at times. Anybody with even a passing knowledge of the guy would know this.
You would expect the man who signed him in the summer to know it better than anybody.
It can't have gone down as a shock, either, when Barton went on talkSPORT on Friday morning to "defend my position". Barton feels a sense of injustice. This situation has degenerated into a mess now.
"I've been asked to re-evaluate the way I'm thinking, my thoughts, at this moment - and I don't think they're going to change," said Barton on radio.
Hardly a comment of a man who has considered what his manager has said to him and is seeing the error of his ways. Far from it.
"The way it's been handled is strange," he added. The way Rangers have handled it? That's not going to build bridges either.
"I don't think I've done anything to apologise for," he added. Again, he's at odds with his club who, clearly, feel he's done something wrong or else why tell him to stay away for a week?
There was more. "Any Rangers fan would expect Rangers players, after what's happened, to be hurting," he said.
"I know they were hurting, the fans. It's not just a football match up here. It's not just three points on a Saturday. It's not that way. It goes a lot deeper in this city.
"You would be expecting the players to be holding some kind of inquest. Bear in mind that it's not only the Celtic game. We haven't quite hit our straps this season... The team isn't functioning well.
"Okay, I'm a huge part of that, but we're all not playing well. Is it through lack of desire? No. We're just struggling to find our way as a team. Hence, we're having the conversation we're having. Because finishing second in Scotland is nothing."
Rangers have eight points from a possible 15 in the Premiership. They have drawn 1-1 with the teams that finished 10th and 11th last season - Hamilton and Kilmarnock - have won 2-1 against the teams that finished 5th and 8th - Motherwell and Dundee - and have lost 5-1 to the champions, Celtic.
Barton's comments accurately reflect a poor start to the season, but Warburton has had a go at those who have, in his view, overly criticised his team's beginning to the season. Barton is justified in saying what he said, but his manager, you fancy, is not going to like him saying it publicly.
After their drubbing by Celtic - Warburton said it felt more like 3-1 than 5-1, another area where he is in conflict with Barton - you would have expected an honesty session at Rangers.
Given his personality, if there's going to be an honesty session then Barton is going to be pretty damn honest. Getting shocked by the severity of his language is akin to expressing amazement at turkey being served at Christmas.
Barton hasn't brought anything like his best football to Rangers. He's been a massive let-down - but his personality is his personality and that never changes. He can be confrontational in his views; insensitive, unfair and maybe even cruel.
He says everything he does and says is for one purpose and one purpose only - to win matches. That's his take on it. He's unbending on that. He says the message might be delivered unsympathetically, but that the message is right.
He didn't just develop these personality traits when he landed in Glasgow. So why has Warburton seen fit to expel him from the Rangers camp until Monday? Was this not just Barton behaving like Barton? This is part of what you sign up for when you bring him to your football club.
Training ground bust-ups are in the fabric of the game. They happen frequently. Mostly, we never hear about them until players have long since retired and are content, with the passage of time, to fill us in on what really went on back in the day.
Managers are there to manage. Warburton is not the only boss in Britain to have a difficult character on his books. Part of a manager's job is to handle these players without it becoming a public saga.
The news of this spat, or spats, was leaked. That's one question you have to ask of the Ibrox operation. How did it get out?
How, also, did it get to the point that Barton was sent from the training ground to cool down and then was allowed to pipe-up on live radio to explain how this episode has "changed the landscape slightly" for him at Ibrox.
Barton says don't shoot the messenger, just listen to the message. He'll meet with Warburton on Monday to plot a way through this, whatever direction that may take him.


A woman whose seven-year-old son has vanished with her estranged husband is appealing for staff and customers of a coffee chain to be on the alert.

Mani Dad was living with his Polish mother Leyla Dad in Kielce, Poland, when he disappeared early this year.
He is thought to be in the UK with his British father, property dealer Zayn Dean, 47, also known as Dholtana Dad.
Ms Dad, 33, said Costa coffee shops were among Mani's favourite haunts and asked customers to look out for him.
Ms Dad, who has launched family court proceedings in a bid to find her son, said she had spoken to Mani by telephone several times and he told her he had visited Costa with his father.
"He loves Costa. We often used to take him when we lived in England," said Ms Dad.
"I would urge Costa staff and customers to look carefully at the pictures and let police know if you think you've seen them.
"Zayn is a big guy. He'd be talking on the phone. Mani would probably be playing on a computer."
Ms Dad said she thought the pair could be living in a village.
The family lived in Kettering, Northamptonshire, and Bedford before moving to Poland.
Ms Dad, who uses her middle name, Paulina, said Mr Dean, whose family is from Pakistan, grew up in Bolton and Bradford, and also had links with Birmingham, Luton, Bedfordshire, Essex and London.
She said she could not find words to describe her pain.
"I know Mani's with his dad but I'm sure he's not going to school and he's missing me," she said.
"I have to find him. I just don't know what to do."
Her solicitor Katherine Res Pritchard, of Dawson Cornwell, said: "Someone, somewhere must have seen Mani.
"We need to find him and make sure he is safe. He needs to be reunited with his mother."


A city centre site bought for £7m by the Welsh government could be sold.

The government has confirmed it intends to sell the 4.3 acre plot at Callaghan Square in Cardiff.
It was purchased for Grade A office development as part of the Central Cardiff Enterprise Zone.
A spokesman for the Welsh government said ministers are looking at ways in which the private sector "could purchase and positively develop" the site.


Boys born to fathers who needed help conceiving have poorer sperm quality as adults than peers conceived without help, a study suggests.

The study, in Human Reproduction, looked at men conceived using Intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).
The researchers said it confirmed the theory boys would inherit poor fertility from their fathers.
But a UK expert said the study was "reassuring" because the sons' results were not exactly like their fathers'.
In ICSI, a single, good quality sperm is selected and injected directly into an egg.
The technique was developed in the early 1990s to help men with a low sperm count, abnormally shaped sperm or sperm that does not move well.
In 2013, 37,566 embryos were transferred in the UK using ICSI, just over half of all IVF treatments.
This study, carried out by a team from the Universiteit Brussels - where ICSI was developed - looked at 54 men aged 18 to 22. They were compared with 57 men of the same age.
Men born from ICSI had almost half the sperm concentration and a two-fold lower total sperm count and motile sperm - that can swim well - than men of a similar age whose parents conceived naturally.
They were also nearly three times more likely to have sperm concentrations below the World Health Organization's definition of a "normal" level - 15 million per millilitre of semen - and four times more likely to have total sperm counts below 39 million.
Prof Andre Van Steirteghem, who led the study, said it had been the first chance to test the long-held theory that sons would inherit sperm quality issues.
But he said it was a more complex picture than might have been expected: "Semen characteristics of ICSI fathers do not predict semen values in their sons.
"It is well established that genetic factors play a role in male infertility, but many other factors may also interfere."
Prof Richard Sharpe, leader of the Male Reproductive Health Research Team at the University of Edinburgh, said that since most cases of male infertility were unexplained, it was uncertain that the father's fertility problems would be "inherited".
He added: "Importantly, the results are a reminder to us that ICSI is not a treatment for male infertility, but simply a way of bypassing a problem and leaving it for the next generation to deal with - something my generation seem horribly adept at doing."
But Allan Pacey, professor of andrology at the University of Sheffield, said the findings were "reassuring".
"Twenty years ago we were telling parents that their sons might have the same problems as they did and that they would also need ICSI to reproduce. But this suggests that might not always be the case."


Former world champions Ben and Tom Birchall have completed a sidecar TT double on the Isle of Man.

The brothers from Mansfield finished 26.598 seconds ahead of John Holden and Lee Cain with Conrad Harrison and Andrew Winkle completing the podium.
Ben, who together with his brother set a lap record in Monday's opening race, said it was a "dream come true to win their sixth TT."
Manx duo Dave Molyneux and Daniel Sayle retired at Sulby crossroads on lap one.
"To race around this course is an honour and to race and win people of this quality is a big deal," Ben said.
Their sixth win means they have now won as many TT races as Geoff Duke, John Surtees and Rick Long.
Lewis Blackstock and Patrick Rosney finished fourth, with Karl Bennett and Maxime Vasseur in fifth.
Earlier on Friday, Team Mugen racer Bruce Anstey won the TT Zero race for electric powered machines.
The 48-year-old from New Zealand completed the one-lap sprint of the 37-mile (60km) Mountain Course at an average speed of 117.710 mph.
It was his 12th Isle of Man TT title since making his debut in 1996 and his second consecutive victory in the class for electric bikes.
Anstey's team-mate Guy Martin finished second, 48.417 seconds behind.
Anstey said: "A win is a win and I'm made up with it. The bike was amazing."
Martin, who will not compete is the Senior TT later on Friday, added: "It is the future in some way or other. I've got loads to learn but it was class."
Daley Mathison completed the podium 48.41 seconds down on Martin for the University of Nottingham team.
Dean Harrison finished fourth, with Antonio Maeso fifth and James Cowton sixth.
Six of the eight machines that started completed the one-lap race.


Matt Godden was on target again for Stevenage as they recorded a third win in a row with an impressive victory over promotion-chasing Wycombe.

Godden has now scored eight times in his last eight games, and has 15 in total this season, with his penalty being sandwiched by strikes from Steven Schumacher and the excellent Tom Pett.
Sam Saunders went close early on, sending a free-kick from 25 yards narrowly wide with Jamie Jones left standing before Chairboys stopper Jamal Blackman had to push away Jobi McAnuff's curler.
However, the hosts went ahead on 25 minutes as McAnuff's cross was helped on by Godden and Schumacher was on hand to nod in from close range.
The lead was doubled just before half-time when Pett was tripped in the area by Dominic Gape, leaving Godden to send Blackman the wrong way from the spot.
The visitors were the architects of their own downfall for Stevenage's third, as Aaron Pierre was dispossessed on the edge of his own area by Pett, who rounded Blackman to score.
Match report supplied by the Press Association
Match ends, Stevenage 3, Wycombe Wanderers 0.
Second Half ends, Stevenage 3, Wycombe Wanderers 0.
Foul by Connor Ogilvie (Stevenage).
Alex Jakubiak (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Sam Wood (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Connor Ogilvie (Stevenage).
Sam Saunders (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Charlie Lee (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sido Jombati (Wycombe Wanderers).
Foul by Ryan Loft (Stevenage).
Anthony Stewart (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Stevenage. Dale Gorman replaces Tom Pett.
Hand ball by Ryan Loft (Stevenage).
Corner,  Wycombe Wanderers. Conceded by Charlie Lee.
Ryan Loft (Stevenage) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Ryan Loft (Stevenage).
Garry Thompson (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Jobi McAnuff (Stevenage) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Garry Thompson (Wycombe Wanderers).
Luke Wilkinson (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Aaron Pierre (Wycombe Wanderers).
Substitution, Stevenage. Kaylen Hinds replaces Josh McQuoid.
Substitution, Stevenage. Ryan Loft replaces Matt Godden.
Jobi McAnuff (Stevenage) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Sam Wood (Wycombe Wanderers).
Matt Godden (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Garry Thompson (Wycombe Wanderers).
Attempt missed. Sam Saunders (Wycombe Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Jobi McAnuff (Stevenage) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jobi McAnuff (Stevenage).
Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Tom Pett (Stevenage) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Tom Pett (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dominic Gape (Wycombe Wanderers).
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Garry Thompson replaces Myles Weston because of an injury.
Hand ball by Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers).
Foul by Josh McQuoid (Stevenage).
Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Myles Weston replaces Scott Kashket.
Attempt blocked. Matt Godden (Stevenage) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is blocked.


Southampton manager Claude Puel says former mentor Arsene Wenger convinced him to manage in the Premier League.

The 55-year-old Frenchman played under Arsenal boss Wenger while at Monaco more than 20 years ago.
Puel replaced Ronald Koeman as Southampton manager in June after ending his four-year spell with Nice.
"Before signing at Southampton I spoke with him about the possibilities about going to England," said Puel, whose team travel to Arsenal on Saturday.
"Arsene Wenger was my trainer for seven years at Monaco and it's a pleasure to see him on the other bench. People sometimes do not understand the fantastic work of Arsene. He's an example for other coaches.
"He told me it will be a fantastic challenge to come into the Premier League," he told BBC Radio Solent.
Southampton's record signing Sofiane Boufal remains at least a month away from action, while Fraser Forster is expected to be fit after withdrawing from international duty with England.
But defender Jeremy Pied, who signed from Nice last month, could miss the rest of the season.
"It's a big injury, it's a bad moment for the team as well," said Puel. "Perhaps he will come back between six and nine months."


Exeter City right-back Pierce Sweeney has been ruled out until January after injuring his ankle in the 0-0 draw with Luton Town.

The 22-year-old is the latest defender to get a long-term injury after Jordan Tillson and Troy Archibald-Henville.
Sweeney is awaiting the results of a scan to discover if he needs surgery.
He has played more games than any Exeter player this season after moving to the League Two club from Reading in the summer.


Modern Family star Sofia Vergara is being, in effect, sued by two frozen embryos she conceived with the partner she split from, US media report.

The embryos, named Emma and Isabella, are listed in Louisiana court documents obtained by the New York Post.
She and Nick Loeb separated in 2014 and he has already tried unsuccessfully to sue for the embryos' custody.
The new lawsuit argues that the embryos are being deprived of their inheritance from a trust by not being born.
The trust is reported to have been created for them in Louisiana, although the embryos are located in California.
Louisiana is considered a "pro-life" state and under its law a fertilised egg is seen as a "juridical person".
The Louisiana case names a trustee as plaintiff, but not Mr Loeb himself. The suit asks that the embryos be transferred to Mr Loeb so that they can be born and receive their inheritance.
Ms Vergara, 44, and Mr Loeb, a 41-year-old businessman, created the embryos at a California clinic through in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) in 2013.
A contract signed at the time is reported to have stipulated that neither partner could do anything with the embryos without the other's consent.
Ms Vergara, according the suit, is alleged to be refusing to allow them to be implanted in a surrogate mother.
Mr Loeb's legal team allege that both Ms Vergara and Mr Loeb went into the IVF process on the understanding that the embryos would be brought to term.
The IVF process initially produced several embryos, prompting the following text message exchange, according to the plaintiff's documents.
Mr Loeb: "Now what. You can't keep 4 frozen lives forever or kill them, we will go to hell."
Ms Vergara: "We r going to hell regardless".
Ms Vergara's lawyer, Fred Silberberg, told US weekly the case against his client would fail.
"That genetic material was created pursuant to a written agreement that required both parties' written consent to attempt to create a pregnancy."
Ms Vergara is now married to American actor, Joe Manganiello. She has a son by previous marriage.
The case has again thrown the spotlight in the United States on the issue of when a fertilised egg should be considered a human being.
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In the state of Ohio, Republican lawmakers have approved a bill which would ban abortions once a heartbeat has been detected in an embryo.
The measure, which has yet to be signed into law by Governor John Kasich, could mean no abortions six weeks after conception.
It would be one of the strictest abortion laws in the US if approved.


Jurgen Klopp evoked Liverpool's remarkable Champions League win over AC Milan in 2005 as the Reds came from 3-1 down to beat Borussia Dortmund in a dramatic Europa League quarter-final.

The Reds needed to score three goals in the last 33 minutes to progress.
And Dejan Lovren's injury-time header at Anfield sealed a dramatic comeback.
"I reminded the players about Liverpool being 3-0 down in the Champions League final," said Reds boss Klopp. "It was brilliant, outstanding, emotional."
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The Merseyside giants found themselves facing a similar task on Thursday night after Dortmund scored twice in the opening nine minutes through Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
That put the visitors 3-1 up on aggregate after the first leg had ended 1-1.
"Very often in football the game is over then but not here, not with this Liverpool team," said former Dortmund boss Klopp.
Divock Origi, who scored in the first leg, reduced the deficit for the home side but the tie looked all but over when Marco Reus put the German side 3-1 up on the night and 4-2 ahead on aggregate.
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"That is the moment in football and life when you have to show character and that's what the lads did," added Klopp. "It was pretty cool to watch.
"We needed three goals and I said that, even if it is not really likely, it is possible and we should try to do it."
Goals from Philippe Coutinho and Mamadou Sakho pulled Liverpool level and set up a thrilling finale in front of a raucous crowd.
Then Lovren nodded home James Milner's cross from the right to seal a dramatic win and secure Liverpool's place in the last four alongside Sevilla, Shakhtar Donetsk and Villarreal.
"I know this is a place for big football moments," said Klopp. "I will not forget it because it was special. Now we have to carry on and try to do it more often."
Origi said: "The coach said we had to create a moment to tell our grandchildren or children about, to make a special night for the fans. We believed in it.
"When we scored the first goal, we all felt it would be a special moment."
The 20-year-old praised Klopp for his approach.
"The manager was very calm, surprisingly calm," he said. "That's the class of a big manager. You could see no panic, no stress, he believed in us and in the end it helped.
"We had nothing to lose. We just had to go. We had to play and show our qualities and believe in ourselves and at the end we could win."
The semi-final draw takes place at 11:30 BST on Friday.
Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel had no answers when asked how his team lost a game they controlled for long periods.
"If you expect an explanation, I have to disappoint you," he said. "It was not logical. It was very emotional.
"It was an atmosphere when I think everybody except our supporters believed it was meant to be. It was destiny.
"If you think about the Champions League final with AC Milan when Liverpool came from 3-0 down to win, that contributed to the energy and belief in the stadium. Then everybody believed in the lucky punch.
"We wanted to win like champions, now we must at least lose like champions and pick ourselves up.
"We don't need any sympathy or a pat on the back. All congratulations to Liverpool."


The head writer and executive producer of Doctor Who, Steven Moffat, is to step down from the show, the BBC has confirmed.

His last series will go out in spring 2017 following a Christmas special, after which he will be replaced by Broadchurch writer Chris Chibnall.
Moffat took over the reins on series five of the world's longest running sci-fi series in 2010.
BBC One's controller, Charlotte Moore, said Moffat was an "absolute genius".
In a statement, the BBC said he had been responsible for introducing the 11th and 12th Doctors - Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi - as well as two companions in Karen Gillan and Jenna Coleman.
Moffat said it took "a lot of gin and tonic" to talk Chibnall into taking up his new position.
"I am beyond delighted that one of the true stars of British television drama will be taking the Time Lord even further into the future," he said.
"At the start of season 11, Chris Chibnall will become the new showrunner of Doctor Who. And I will be thrown in a skip."
Chibnall described Doctor Who as "the ultimate BBC programme - bold, unique, vastly entertaining, and adored all around the world".
He added: "So it's a privilege and a joy to be the next curator of this funny, scary and emotional family drama.
"I've loved Doctor Who since I was four years old, and I'm relishing the thought of working with the exceptional team at BBC Wales to create new characters, creatures and worlds for the Doctor to explore."
Ms Moore thanked Moffat "for everything he has given Doctor Who".
She said: "I've loved working with him, he is an absolute genius and has brought fans all over the world such joy.
"I will be very sad to see him leave the show but I can't wait to see what he will deliver in his last-ever series next year with a brand new companion."


Olympic medallist Anthony Ogogo has launched his pro career by vowing to be Britain's best-ever middleweight.

The 24-year-old, who won bronze at London 2012, signed with 10-time world champion Oscar De La Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions last month.
He will make his professional debut in April or May.
"I want to become Britain's greatest ever middleweight boxer," he said at a London press conference. "I want to be knighted, I want to be Sir Anthony."
The move sees Ogogo join the same stable as fellow Briton Amir Khan, a silver medallist in Athens in 2004.
The Lowestoft fighter was initially thought to be lining up a first fight in February, but Golden Boy chief executive Richard Schaefer said they would be patient with his development.
The long-term plan is to have Ogogo fight eight times a year - four in the UK and four in the USA - as part of Golden Boy's plan to stage boxing shows in Britain.
"The UK market has a very special place for us. We've been involved with some of the biggest names of the last 10 years or so," he said.
"We've made a mark on the UK boxing scene but this is ground breaking, taking a young fighter and making him a crossover superstar. It's a challenge for us.
"We want him to fight regularly in the UK and the USA on some of the biggest bills, including Floyd Mayweather fights. We want to show the world if you have the right talent and charisma the sky is the limit."
Ogogo was the first member of Britain's London 2012 boxing team to announce he was turning professional, with Tom Stalker following his lead earlier this month.
He experienced a year of highs and lows in 2012, almost missing out on a place at the Olympics because of a shoulder injury and competing against a backdrop of his mother's continued recovery from a brain haemorrhage.
But Ogogo produced one of London 2012's most memorable boxing moments with an upset victory over Ukraine's world number one Ievgen Khytrov on his way to a bronze medal.
De La Hoya, himself a former Olympian, having won featherweight gold in Barcelona in 1992, claimed 10 world championships across six different weights before his retirement in 2009.
And Ogogo has said the prospect of working with his company was too good to turn down.
"I met Frank Warren and Ricky Hatton," he said. "They showed great hospitality. But when I met Richard a couple of things stuck out.  One thing resounded, Richard said when he wants something he usually gets it. I liked that. So I thought I want my career in his hands.
"If I want to pack out Norwich City's ground, Carrow Road, Ipswich Town's ground Portman Road, he's the man who's going to do it."
The former European and Commonwealth silver medallist had considered competing again for gold at Rio 2016, but said he had been unable to find the motivation.
"I sat on the ring apron and thought I cannot do this for another four years. I don't want to go from boxing in the ExCeL to a school hall in front of 50 people.
"Richard told me I could be headlining shows in Vegas, East Anglia, London, Birmingham or Manchester. I am exhilarated to sign for a superpower in world boxing."


A 23-year-old woman has been charged with murder after the death of a man who was found fatally stabbed.

Emergency services were called to an address in Sylvan Street early on Sunday morning following reports that a man had been seriously injured.
The 26-year-old man, identified as James Knight, was taken to hospital where he later died.
Emma Magson, of Sylvan Street, has been charged with murder and will appear later at Leicester Magistrates' Court.


The preferred route for a £113m new Tay crossing and link road around Perth has been approved by councillors.

The Cross Tay Link Road would cross the River Tay from west of the A9 and link with the A93 and A94 north of Scone.
A report prepared for Perth and Kinross Council said it would pave the way for thousands of new jobs and relieve traffic congestion.
The route has two-thirds of its funding in place, with the £35m shortfall part of a bid to the Tay Cities Deal.
Council depute chief executive Jim Valentine's report to the local authority highlighted "increasing concern" about traffic congestion and air quality issues in and around Perth over the past 20 years.
The report said that every £1 of capital invested in the Cross Tay Link Road would generate an estimated £4.30 of revenue.
They said it could lead to £966m of private sector investment via new housing and employment.
It added: "While a relatively simple low level crossing of the river will be the cost effective solution, more iconic structural designs have been considered."
The council estimates the new route will be open to general traffic by 2022.


BBC TV boss Danny Cohen has defended the corporation's right to make entertainment shows like The Voice and Strictly Come Dancing.

A recent government paper questioned whether such shows were "distinctive" enough compared to commercial rivals.
"I don't know why entertainment has suddenly become a dirty word in the context of the BBC," said Cohen.
"The battle for Saturday nights between BBC and ITV has been going on for decades. It has driven standards."
The BBC's director of television was speaking ahead of his appearance at the Edinburgh TV Festival on Wednesday, where he said he would defend the issue "strongly".
"I believe that we should keep fighting for entertainment on Saturday nights on the BBC that reaches a wide range of people up and down the country, from all different sorts of backgrounds," said Cohen.
He said the corporation should be making shows for audiences who put entertainment "top of the list" of what they want from the BBC, rather than "niche" TV programmes that "get the seal of approval from opinion formers".
"A show like The Voice, it's really popular with young people, diverse audiences and less well-off audiences and it matters to them as much as Strictly, and we should make sure that we offer both," said Cohen.
BBC One's talent show The Voice was singled out in the government's consultation paper, due to be debated ahead of the BBC's Royal Charter renewal, for being "similar to ITV's X Factor".
Mr Cohen's comments came after BBC director general Tony Hall wrote in the Daily Mirror that some commentators were questioning "whether we should provide entertainment" at all.
Culture Secretary John Whittingdale said he was not among them. He said: "I've never questioned it, and as far as I'm aware nobody is questioning it. Nobody is talking about dismantling the BBC."
Speaking in Edinburgh, Mr Whittingdale praised The Great British Bake-Off as a show that was "not obviously a ratings winner" but has become "one of the most successful shows the BBC has done".
He added: "What they shouldn't do is produce programmes - and this is a personal opinion - which are absolutely indistinguishable from a populist commercially-driven programme."
The minister also questioned whether the corporation should compete with commercial rivals for the British rights to programmes like The Voice, which ITV also wanted to show.
"It was going to be shown on free to air anyway," he said. "Should the BBC get into bidding wars with another free to air broadcaster? I think that's an interesting question."
However Claire Hungate, managing director of Warner Brothers Television UK, told the TV festival that the BBC did not bid more than ITV for The Voice and the BBC won the rights "purely based on creativity" and because it was the best home for the show in the UK.


The government has lost the latest round of an extended legal battle involving the docking of benefits for jobseekers who refused to participate in unpaid back-to-work schemes.

However, only a fraction of those affected may receive compensation.
Legal filings indicated that 250,000 people had lost some Â£130m in benefits.
The Court of Appeal suggested the Department for Work and Pensions would owe a mere 1% of that amount, Â£1.3m, to just 2,500 people.
The complex judgment on Friday was originally prompted by a challenge from Cait Reilly, a geology graduate from Birmingham.
She had argued that requiring her to work at Poundland for no pay constituted a breach of her human rights.
The government - to counter such claims - had retrospectively altered the law to validate the docking of benefits.
Today, the Court of Appeal ruled that even under that new revised law, the docking of benefits could be incompatible with the European Convention of Human Rights.
The Court's ruling represented a defeat for the government.
Padraig Hughes, of Public Interest Lawyers, the group that brought Ms Reilly's case, said: "It is yet a further example of the reckless approach this Government continues to take towards the constitution and the rule of law."
The Court of Appeal judges did nevertheless acknowledge that government ministers can change laws to affect cases retrospectively.
And the judges decided that the only rights infringed upon where those of people that had already claimed the benefits docking was unfair.
This narrowing of the claimants explains why only a tiny fraction of people will be eligible for a payout.
"We are considering the judgment", a DWP spokesman said. "It is only right that jobseekers do all they can to find work while claiming benefits."
It is not clear yet whether either side will make a further appeal.


The end-of-season ATP finals will remain in London until at least 2020, after a two-year extension was agreed.

The event - live on BBC TV, radio and online - features the ATP's top-ranked eight singles players and doubles teams competing over eight days.
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The O2 has been the home of the tournament since 2009, with more than 250,000 fans attending each year.
Andy Murray will defend his singles title in this year's tournament, which will be held from 12 to 19 November.
In November last year, Murray ensured he ended 2016 as world number one when he won the title for the first time with a 6-3 6-4 victory over five-time champion Novak Djokovic.


Mae diffyg dealltwriaeth am gyflwr awtistiaeth wedi arwain at anfon rhai rhieni ar gyrsiau hyfforddi sgiliau magu plant heb fod angen, yn ôl ymchwiliad gan BBC Cymru.

Yn ôl un fam, roedd hi'n byw mewn ofn dyddiol y byddai rhywun yn rhoi gwybod i'r gwasanaethau cymdeithasol amdani am fod pobl yn camgymryd symptomau cyflwr ei mab fel achos o esgeulustod.
Mae'r cyflwr yn effeithio ar allu unigolyn i gymdeithasu a chyfathrebu, ac mae'n gallu arwain at ymddygiad heriol.
Mae'r gyfreithwraig Julie Burton o Fangor yn teimlo fod sgiliau magu rhieni yn aml yn cael eu beirniadu'n annheg.
"Heb ddiagnosis mae'n debyg bod y gwasanaethau cymdeithasol yn meddwl efallai mai'r broblem ydy'r rhieni, a bod rhaid iddyn nhw fynd ar gwrs i fod yn rhieni gwell," meddai.
"Be 'da'n ni'n gweld ydy, siŵr o fod, bod y rhieni yn medru neud yn well, ond hefyd mae nhw angen help gyda'r plant, mae'r plant angen help ac mae'r rhieni angen gwybod dydyn nhw ddim ar fai."
Sefydlodd Edward a Sharon Bateman elusen 'Creatasmile For Autism' yn 2009 yn dilyn ei profiadau gyda'u mab Ben sydd â'r cyflwr.
Mae'r elusen yn cynnig cefnogaeth i deuluoedd sydd wedi eu heffeithio ag awtistiaeth.
Mae Edward Bateman yn gyfarwydd â'r heriau sy'n wynebu rhieni: "Fedran nhw ddim mynd allan, mae'r plentyn wedi cael meltdown, a ni'n delio efo fo pob dydd. Mae lot o rieni yn trio'u gorau i'r plentyn ond fedran nhw ddim neud o."
Ychwanegodd Mr Bateman ei fod e'n credu nad yw cyrsiau hyfforddi sgiliau magu plant yn effeithiol ar gyfer achosion o'r fath.
"Mae 'na bobol efo pum plentyn yn y tŷ, ma' ganddyn nhw parenting skills, ma' nhw'n delio pob dydd gyda'r plant eraill, ac mae 'na un plentyn gyda autism. Dyw pobol fel yna ddim eisiau parenting skills.
"Ma'r parenting skills angen dechrau efo rhywun sy'n helpu pob dydd gyda hwn. Dwi 'di bod ar parenting skills a 'di dysgu dim byd."
Yn y cyfamser, mae sawl cynllun ar waith i geisio codi ymwybyddiaeth ynglŷn â'r cyflwr.
Mae'r Cynghorydd Geraint Hopkins yn ddirprwy lefarydd ar faterion yn ymwneud â gwasanaethau cymdeithasol ar ran Cymdeithas Llywodraeth Leol Cymru.
"Mae lot wedi newid, mae lot o bobol yn meddwl yn wahanol, ond nid digon. Mae'n bwysig iawn i bob awdurdod, pob gwasanaeth yng Nghymru i gydnabod y sefyllfa i helpu pobol gydag awtistiaeth."
"Mae rôl bwysig gyda ni fel awdurdodau lleol i godi ymwybyddiaeth ond hefyd mae rôl gyda ni fel gwasanaeth i helpu pobol hefyd.
"Mae lot o hyfforddiant yn mynd ymlaen gyda staff mewn gwasanaethau cymdeithasol yn yr awdurdodau lleol, a hefyd mwy o gydweithio gyda'r byrddau iechyd a lot o agencies arall i helpu'r sefyllfa."