Letters | 5 January 2008

Hoggartian paradox

The result has been the Hoggartian paradox of programmes that managed to be both, in Simon’s words, ‘scaringly revealing’ and largely covering ‘old and well-travelled ground’.

Hoggartian paradox

The result has been the Hoggartian paradox of programmes that managed to be both, in Simon’s words, ‘scaringly revealing’ and largely covering ‘old and well-travelled ground’. I am sorry that he was so disappointed and, of course, I am as sure that he would have done a better job of interviewing Mr Blair as I am that his criticisms are utterly unmotivated by envy.

David Aaronovitch
By email

In defence of Ms Gibbons

Mr Liddle might also care to reflect that if Ms Gibbons praises the warmth of the ordinary Sudanese people, it could be that she is not ‘thick’ or suffering from ‘congenital idiocy’ but that, having actually lived in Sudan, she knows what she is talking about.