And what is it exactly that Newnight's Emily Maitlis thinks her now-openly anti-Brexit former colleague has "nailed" in his article in the anti-Brexit New European and that pro-Brexit Tim so objects to?
Well, Gavin's piece is a "blast" against the EU referendum result. He used to accept it, despite being a Remain voter, but now he doesn't. And, more importantly, he now rejects the idea of "supposed balance" and, already aghast at the BBC for allowing Lord Lawson onto their airwaves to be 'sceptical' about climate change, now wants a re-think. He 'sees' that the referendum result was built on lies and manipulation and must be repudiated. Plus the leading Brexiteers are bad people. And the Tax Payers' Alliance are bad people. And so are the IEA. Brexit will make us poor and 'Project Fantasy' must be stopped. Evidently, he wants broadcasters to say so and put the baddies in their place. The mask couldn't be more 'off' with Gavin.
It's a funny thing. I used to feel a bit silly and unkind for banging on so often about how biased Gavin Esler was on the BBC News Channel, especially on Dateline London Even other stern BBC critics seemed to pass over the mild-mannered Mr Esler (friend and promoter of Palestinian extremist Abdel Bari Atwan, for many years his programme Dateline London's most regular guest). This New European piece of his, therefore, comes as absolutely no surprise to me though it's tone, should you read it, might still shock you - especially if you still think Gavin Esler is simply a nice, moderate, inoffensive guy. This is not a nice piece. (Check out his bit on Chloe Westley of the TPA if you still doubt that).
Still, that's not what matters. Gavin is gone from the BBC. Like Æthelred the Unready or Qin Shi Huang (China's first emperor), he's history.
What about Emily Maitlis though?
Her Newsnight performances are becoming increasingly James O'Brien-like (and he parted company from Newsnight last year over the very issue of impartiality, with him thinking - like Gavin Esler - that 'correct views' must be expressed and the bad guys exposed).
What about Emily Maitlis though?
Her Newsnight performances are becoming increasingly James O'Brien-like (and he parted company from Newsnight last year over the very issue of impartiality, with him thinking - like Gavin Esler - that 'correct views' must be expressed and the bad guys exposed).
How is it in any way compatible with BBC editorial guidelines on impartiality that she should say that Gavin has "nailed something critical here" when pretty much everything Gavin wrote in that New European piece is (openly) impartiality- free and aggressively anti-Brexit?
What is Emily Maitlis up to by so openly agreeing with her former Newsnight colleague that broadcasters like the BBC have failed to expose "Brexit fantasies" and the wicked ways of the Brexit fantasists?
And what is her much-applauded-by-the-pro-EU-Twitterati newly-hyper-aggressive interviewing of the very people Gavin so objects to all about exactly?
Is she merely following through on the same thoughts Gavin Esler was expressing here and she was endorsing in that tweet?
She is clearly on manoeuvres, for some reason.
Will Newsnight's new editor Esme Wren tolerate this?
And what is her much-applauded-by-the-pro-EU-Twitterati newly-hyper-aggressive interviewing of the very people Gavin so objects to all about exactly?
Is she merely following through on the same thoughts Gavin Esler was expressing here and she was endorsing in that tweet?
She is clearly on manoeuvres, for some reason.
Will Newsnight's new editor Esme Wren tolerate this?
