Has Newsnight gone rogue? Monkey only asks after the BBC2 current affairs flagship slipped its 10.30pm anchor on Wednesday and set sail on YouTube with a five-minute review of the Autumn statement, featuring Evan Davis quizzing correspondents Allegra Stratton, Chris Cook and Duncan Weldon. Monkey wonders what Andrew Neil, Jo Coburn, Nick Robinson, Robert Peston & Co – slaving away on the BBC’s live rolling TV coverage of the autumn statement, simulcast on BBC2 and the BBC News Channel – made of this digital interloper?

• This article was amended on Thursday 4 December. It originally stated ‘at the time of writing on Wednesday afternoon had only attracted “301+views” (the YouTube equivalent of the dreaded “zero rating” in TV overnights)‘, which is an inaccurate comparison.