Free the Greenpeace 30! (And spare us any more whingeing from Damon Albarn,...
Like most caring, nurturing souls who believe in a cleaner, better, happier world I'm keen for the 30 Greenpeace activists currently being held on piracy charges by the Russians to be released from...
View ArticleRussell Brand, unnecessary revolutionary
Did you see Russell Brand on Newsnight last night? Watch the video above if you didn't. He is, if nothing else, compelling viewing. And I agree with him about Jeremy Paxman's beard. He worries me,...
View ArticleJudging from his car crash interview on Newsnight, Tristram Hunt was born...
Oh dear. I haven't much liked Tristram Hunt ever since he dismissed free schools as "vanity projects for West London yummy mummies" back in 2010, but even I felt a pang of sympathy after watching him...
View ArticleMy top political moment of 2013 was this demonstration of Labour hypocrisy
What was your political moment of 2013? Mine, in a crowded field, was Tristram Hunt’s gruesome interview with Jeremy Paxman (above). Watch the whole thing if you can, or start from 4.12 if you’ve got...
View ArticleThat's it. If the BBC don't want me, I'm boycotting them
Yesterday, at about a quarter to midnight, I was sat at my computer Googling Kate Smurthwaite. Who, you may ask, is Kate Smurthwaite? Good question. I didn't know, and I desperately needed to find out....
View ArticleWhy Fiona Millar is a member of the Blob
There was a great exchange on Newsnight last night between Fiona Millar, the Left-wing education campaigner, and David Green, the chief executive of Civitas. They were discussing "the Blob", Michael...
View ArticleHarriet Harman owes the British public a full explanation about the NCCL's...
After refusing to admit that the National Council for Civil Liberties link to the Paedophile Information Exchange was a "mistake" on Newsnight last night (see above), Harriet Harman has changed tack...
View ArticleAmazingly, the Left say the BBC is biased to the Right, and the Right say...
Fury, just absolute fury, this morning, as the TUC's senior economist Duncan Weldon is appointed Newsnight economics editor. "BBC liberal bias! It's so unfair!" scream conservatives, of course. But...
View ArticleThe trouble with the BBC isn't that it is one-sidedly political, but that it...
Which way does the BBC swing? To the Left or the Right? This question – which grips the chattering classes almost as much as it anaesthetises ordinary people – is once again causing macchiatos to be...
View ArticleJeremy Paxman leaves Newsnight – but can it survive without him?
Jeremy Paxman, the BBC’s grand inquisitor, has presided over his last inquisition. Or at least he will do in June, when he presents his last edition of Newsnight. His decision to stand down has just...
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