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Zac Goldsmith
Trustafarian self-publisher and Conservative A-lister Zac Goldsmith, sitting on an estimated £300 million inheritance, ‘guest edited’ Today. Among Goldsmith’s ‘contributions’: Is cricket “nicer” than football? Zac Goldsmith asked Piers Morgan to chair a discussion between former England football captain Gary Lineker and the former England fast bowler Angus Fraser. Ho-hum sports talking point though it…
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Somebodies and nobodies
Today is getting Rowan Williams, Yoko Ono and a couple of other people in, to ‘edit’ the programme over the festive period. Well, it beats paying overtime. The BBC is good with somebodies, but it doesn’t do as well with nobodies. It’s great at providing a platform for people who already have a platform, like…
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Today and Jonathan Aitken 2
Today had Jonathan Aitken on – again. I’ve blogged on this before. The discussion was on the decision by the SFO to drop their investigation into BAe. Last time they introduced Aitken as the minister who “famously came unstuck.” This morning John Humphrys introduced him like this: “Conservative government defence minister and he had responsibility…
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Diana again
This morning James Naughtie interviewed Mohammed al-Fayed on the Today programme – it’s here. It wasn’t live. I’m guessing that after the Jeremy Vine experience, the BBC has decided that Mr al-Fayed is a prime candidate for pre-recording. Al-Fayed’s case runs on the confusion over Henri Paul’s blood sample, which even if it were true,…