Simon Heffer

Diary – 16 September 2005

Oh for the days when the BBC saw the need at least to pretend to be impartial

issue 17 September 2005

The New Labour assault on John Humphrys was inevitable, not because he is a Tory (I have no reason to suppose he is) but because he defies Labour’s Gestapo, being always scrupulously fair. He interviewed me last week in a debate with the genial Mr Billy Bragg. When Mr Bragg misrepresented something I had said, Mr Humphrys immediately corrected him and set the record straight.

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