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Stephen Pollard

ByStephen Pollard, Stephen Pollard

Opinion

Humphrys at it again

February 18, 2008 24:00
1 min read

There are many different reasons why I prefer Nicky Campbell in the morning to the Today programme, but the main one is John Humphrys.

He excelled himself today. Alastair Darling deserves to be, and can quite easily be, rilpped to shreds over his handling of Northen Rock. But Humphrys' performance was simply shameful, wilfully distorting Darling's position and words, as Andy McSmith makes clear: A word on the exchange between John Humphrys and Alistair Darling on this morning's Today programme, in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer was accused of having either said or agreed that nationalisation would be 'lingering death' for Northern Rock. It seemed odd that Darling would ever say anything so interesting, having built his career on never expressing a controversial opinion. The record shows that, much as we all admire the great Humphrys, on this occasion he was being unfair.