Friday, May 28, 2010

Question time

The question is not whether the government can tell the BBC who to have on the panel of Question Time, but whether the BBC can tell the government to make a minister available to the programme.

The answer most clearly is no, it is up to the government to decide if they want to be formally represented on a programme aimed more at producing what some people see as ‘good tv’ rather than a discussion of the latest political developments.

Personally I feel that watching that poor sad angry man, Alastair Campbell, declining slowly into the status of embarrassing uncle with his stories of When I was in Patagonia or of How I used to be a contender is more like a freakshow than a programme worthy of the political wing of the BBC.