In some inscrutable way, “common sense” always works out to prove a Tory’s point too. Or that’s what they say.

I wish I could say that that denial shows Gibb has a sense of humour. Unfortunately, it doesn’t.

Worked in? Or run it?

I’m shocked that such a senior journalist should make such an elementary mistake. I wouldn’t mention it otherwise.

Those should be colons after “Gibb” and “paper.” Otherwise, what’s the point of using punctuation?

Tories are unpolitical and impartial by definition. Only the Left can ever be accused of those sins. That is how Tories always speak about it anyway.

I think the answer’s in the question. Prescott was chosen to write that report *because* he didn’t understand the concept. It’s all down to Sir Robbie, and his sponsor Boris Johnson.

When South Africa lodged its ICJ complaint against Israel, the absence of a balancing story came *before* the BBC’s report, not after it. The BBC reported Israel’s waffling response to the charge of genocide at some length, but ignored South Africa’s fully supported legal complaint the day before.

What can you expect? Appointed by Boris Johnson in 2020, Davie was a Tory placeman every bit as much as Robbie Gibb. So that’s what you’d expect him to say - with about as much relationship with the truth as Johnson could ever muster.

Suit yourself.

UKIP - “the BNP in blazers.” That’s about the only useful observation David Cameron ever made.

You sound just like the SDP’s backers in the 1980s. It was going to reshape British politics and at times it led the opinion polls. People called it *the media party* because journos promoted it so eagerly. Finally, long after a botched merger with the Liberals, it helped Cameron into government…

Yes, ever since last July. And not just Farage but his limited company, bizarrely called “Reform,” too.