…collage of clichés. Then I hear him on the radio and I have to take another swipe. This weekend Humphrys was slagging off television today, though he claims not to…
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Geopolitics And The English Language
This morning I listened to the increasingly hysterical John Humphrys do his increasingly silly anti-Iraq war thing on the Today programme on Radio 4. After two Iraqi academics had repeatedly…
Read MoreThe Other Side of the Story
Last week I had another rant at John Humphrys‘ continued myth-telling. Ann Clwyd, Left-wing Labour MP and long-timer campaigner for human rights in Iraq was his interviewee during the item…
Read More“…and the freedom”
…the washing machine. Then John Humphrys comes on the radio to tell you that Iraq is “in chaos” again. It’s a wonder there are any Iraqis left in the country,…
Read MoreMissing The Point
…John Humphrys’ encounters with politicians raise my blood pressure, not because his aggressive questioning succeeds in exposing the lying lies of lying liars, but because it lets them off the…
Read MoreThings I Want To Do With PooterGeek
…their working environment, take photographs, and quiz them in a completely non-John Humphrys way. I want to nail exactly what they believe, rather than argue with them. In fact, I’ll…
Read MoreThey’ll Kill Us Anyway
…performance when he was interviewed about those same elections by John Humphrys. I wish Radio 4 had interviewed Mark Steyn instead. We’re on the plane. They’re on the plane. If…
Read MoreBang Per Buck—or Why I Willingly Sponsor Killers
…top. (Don’t get me wrong; there’s nothing I enjoy more than listening to Rottweiller Reid bury his canines in the twitching leg of John Humphrys during a Today Programme interview…
Read MoreSaint George
…performance despite interviewer John Humphrys‘ “sophistry”. The accusation was accurate. Of course, Reid’s job would have been easier if he had not been forced to defend the whole “Weapons of…
Read MoreThe Dangers Of An Israeli Accent
Listening to Radio 4 this morning I heard Humphrys ask Ehud Barak, “Would it be right for Israel to kill Yasser Arafat?” I almost fell over at the reply, “Arafat…
Read MoreProtect And Survive
…BBC Radio 4. If four days go by without John Humphrys denouncing the war then you must assume that London has been lost to a nuclear attack. Share this: Facebook…
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