I'm still catching up from last week!
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Wednesday's The World Tonight began by discussing the case of Ethopian pain-in-the-bottom Binyam Mohamed (and he may, or may not, have 
received some pain there himself). What was surprising here was drippingly-liberal presenter Robin Lustig's unusually aggressive interviewing of an academic. The academics usually invited onto The World Tonight, generally being a left-liberal lot, are rarely interrupted. What did Professor Anthony Glees, Professor of Security and Intelligence Studies at the University of Buckingam, do to deserve three feisty interruptions from Robin Lustig? He condemned judges for being harsh on the security forces and condemned Liberty (whose Guardian girl Corinna Ferguson (pictured) had just been given the gentle treatment from Lusty Robin). Lustig was clearly aghast.
received some pain there himself). What was surprising here was drippingly-liberal presenter Robin Lustig's unusually aggressive interviewing of an academic. The academics usually invited onto The World Tonight, generally being a left-liberal lot, are rarely interrupted. What did Professor Anthony Glees, Professor of Security and Intelligence Studies at the University of Buckingam, do to deserve three feisty interruptions from Robin Lustig? He condemned judges for being harsh on the security forces and condemned Liberty (whose Guardian girl Corinna Ferguson (pictured) had just been given the gentle treatment from Lusty Robin). Lustig was clearly aghast. *
Tapping 'Anthony Glees' into my search engine brings up, first of all, a site called SpinProfiles that calls the professor "a right-wing British academic considered an expert on terrorism and radicalism" - and it doesn't mean that as a term of praise!
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Anthony Glees, the first 'right-wing' academic invited onto The World Tonight for some time, is given the full interruption treatment from Robin Lustig. That kind of says it all really.
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In fact, Professor Glees was completely reasonable and spot-on in what he said. Reasonable commentary is clearly not what the BBC wants to hear about its favourite Ethopian.
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Talking of the Binman, Friday's Daily Politics (the edition without Andrew Neil) discussed the issue with, of all people, sleazy Labour MP Keith Vaz. Pouting Jo Coburn's interruption coefficient here was a teeny-weeny 0.2.
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So far as I am aware , Buckingham is the only UK university not controlled by the left. Amazing that the BBC even asked someone from there to comment.
ReplyDelete"pouting Jo Coburn " ! LOL !
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