At the risk of giving unwavering types another fit of apoplexy, I very much agree with this comment at Biased BBC:
Some in the BBC are doing the right thing. This interview with a jihadi turned British agent is excellent.
It seems a genuine account. Without any self serving ‘muslims as victim’.
Well done the Beebers behind this. I hope it doesn’t blight their career prospects. And well done the brave spy who followed his conscience.
Well done the Beebers behind this. I hope it doesn’t blight their career prospects. And well done the brave spy who followed his conscience.
The Spy Who Came In from Al-Qaeda was superb. The jihadi who came in from the cold was very brave. And the reporter behind it, oddly enough, was former Newsnight reporter Peter Marshall.
(Peter Marshall's career has already been blighted though. Ian Katz unceremoniously dumped him from Newsnight a year or so ago).
"Peter Marshall's career has already been blighted though. Ian Katz unceremoniously dumped him from Newsnight a year or so ago"
ReplyDeleteNot sure that latter will be seen in the fullness of time as a 'blight', career-wise, necessarily