WHERE HAVE ALL THE RIGHTIES GONE?

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It's been a busy week this week, so apologies for the falling-off in the amount of blogging I've been able to do. A quick skim through the past 24 hours follows!
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Tonight's PM discussed Obama's moves against bankers with...a Labour MP, John Mann. That's who you'd issue your only invitation to discuss Obama's moves with, isn't it? Thankfully Eddie Mair was on hand to insure that the sometimes excellent/sometimes deeply mistaken Mr Mann was made to work for his supper!
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The other political section was given over to a report by Ross Hawkins on political caretakers, inspired by Arlene Foster's assumption of the DUP leadership. As well as (rightly) talking to Vince Cable and Margaret Beckett, the two most recent caretaker leaders, he also sought the advice of Sir Michael White of The Guardian. How typical of young Ross to seek wisdom from the likes of Sir Michael! This lunchtime's WATO sought the expertise of the Independent's former Latin American editor Colin Harding on Haiti. It's funny how often journalists from those two particular newspapers crop up on BBC programmes.
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This tendency to tilt reports towards the Left is a common trait of BBC bias. Paul Moss's report on Irish emigration on last night's The World Tonight talked to Parias MacEnri, a lecturer in migration studies, and novelist Colm Toibin, but also to a politician, Senator Alex White (naturally) of the Labour Party. Similarly, Giles Dilnot's report on the future of the BBC, featured Peter Bazalgette, the man who brought us Big Brother, and someone introduced as Carole Tongue of the Citizen's Coalition for Public Service Broadcasting - an ominous-sounding organisation if I ever heard one!! She's a former Labour MEP, and like many a former Labour MP/MEP, has fingers in a huge number of pies.
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John Humphrys returned this morning and his first political interview was with Sir Alan Beith (just before 7.00). The topic was prisons. Sir Alan, being a good liberal, is not keen on them. Neither, being a good leftie, is John Humphrys, so they got on together without a single interruption.
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Voices from the Right-of-Centre have been conspicious by their absence.