If you’re me, one of the ways you know that broadcasters are getting desperate for a ‘balancing’ voice to counter a popular point of view is that large numbers of them start telephoning you. You realise they must be scraping the barrel. Never more so, of course, than when what’s sought is that elusive beast, an articulate right-winger who isn’t totally Neanderthal. I generally tell them (always good advice in a tight corner) to try Peter Hitchens or Janet Daley.
But unless (perfectly possible) I’ve missed their broadcast interventions, neither these, nor any of the rest of the small stable of stalwarts on the media right upon whom Britain has to rely for a volume of ‘balancing’ commentary out of all proportion to our numbers, has sprung to the defence of the Daily Mail’s Jan Moir.
Ms Moir last week wrote an entertainingly viperous attack on the late former-boy-band singer and openly gay celebrity Stephen Gately, ‘while his corpse’ (as Ms Moir’s innumerable critics keep protesting) ‘was still warm’.
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