After last week's highly unusual edition, Dateline London reverted to type again today.
The panel consisted of a British left-winger (Owen Jones of The Independent), a Syrian-born left-winger (the freelance journalist Mustapha Karkouti), an American liberal (Michael Goldfarb of GlobalPost) and a left-leaning Catholic commentator (inevitably, Catherine Pepinster of The Tablet, above). The much-used term "left-liberal" sums up that panel to perfection!
Where were the right-of-centre voices? They were where they so often are with Dateline - absolutely nowhere to be seen.
Maybe right-wingers wash their hair at lunchtime. Almost every Saturday.
As for today's Dateline London there was general agreement that austerity is a bad thing and that Pope Francis is far better than Pope Benedict XVI (especially as regards his warmth towards Muslims).
As for today's Dateline London there was general agreement that austerity is a bad thing and that Pope Francis is far better than Pope Benedict XVI (especially as regards his warmth towards Muslims).
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