WHEN THE RED, RED ROBIN...

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Robin Lustig may be one of the Beeb's gentlest interviews but his left-liberal bias is like an overpowering aftershave. You could smell it everywhere on last night's The World Tonight.
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Except when interviewing a 'climate change sceptic' or a rare right-wing academic, he is not much of an interrupter. Out of all the interviews that fall within the scope of my I.C. survey, not one has gone above an I.C. of 0.9. Until yesterday.
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Robin's interview with William Hague over Lord Ashcroft resulted in an I.C. of 2.0, with 6 interruptions in just 3 minutes. This is more than double the previous record, suggesting a high degree of personal interest in the matter from Mr Lustig. Mr Hague's plea, "It's high time the BBC now moved on", will clearly fall on stone-deaf ears.
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Mr Hague returned at the end of the programme for a three-way debate about foreign policy with Ed Davey of the Lib Dems and David Miliband for Labour. More anti-Tory bias was revealed even here, as Robin Lustig asked William Hague 8 specific questions, Ed Davey 5 and David Miliband just 4 (twice merely saying "David Miliband?" to the foreign secretary). Both Mr Hague and Mr Davey were interrupted twice, whereas Mr Miliband was interrupted just once. Mr Miliband also got the long, 'thoughtful' questions, whereas Mr Hague got the shorter, sharper ones.
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What topics did Robin raise in the debate? The EU's role in the world, non-proliferation and climate change.
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