How to apologize and still stand your ground, BBC-style

Mexico wasn’t amused.

The nation’s ambassador to Great Britain wrote a letter to the BBC, in which he called the statements “outrageous, vulgar and inexcusable insults.” The BBC apologized to the Mexican ambassador and, according to The Guardian, issued a statement saying “the comments may have been ‘rude’ and ‘mischievous,’ but there was no ‘vindictiveness’ behind them.”