THE STRANGE CASE OF EVAN JEKYLL AND EVAN HYDE

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The issue of parliamentary privelege was discussed with Sir George Young for the Conservatives and Harriet Harman for Labour on this morning's Today programme.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8503000/8503608.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8503000/8503686.stm
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Harriet Harman faced Sarah Montague, was interrupted twice and scored an Interruption Coefficient of 0.6. Sir George Young faced Evan Davis, was interrupted seven times and scored an Interruption Coefficient of 1.3. The I.C.s suggest that Sir George's interview was at least twice as tough as Hattie's, and this is certainly how it felt listening to both interviews.
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Evan, as when interviewing Chris Grayling on 3/2/10, was not the quiet, thoughtful Evan Davis we know from his interviews with Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, but an aggressive, mocking, opinionated character. The man is turning into James 'Jekyll-when-talking-to-Labour,-Hyde-when-talking-to-the-Tories' Naughtie.
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The bulk of Evan's interview with Sir George did not focus on parliamentary privilege at all, but instead hammered away at the BBC-Guardian-Labour Axis's favourite obsession, Lord Ashcroft. 38.5% of the interview discussed the former, topical issue, whereas 61.5% of the interview fixated on Lord Ashcroft.
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The sheer scale of BBC bias is now growing week by week. There must be an election in the offing.
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