BBC normalising far-left extremism

Ash 'Madame Mao' Sarkar

So, here's the thing, people you don't agree with will sometimes be on TV...

And sometimes people you don't agree with will be on TV a lot.

Take self-professed communist Ash Sarkar from the extreme-Left website Novara Media. 

She's all over the BBC these days. 

Even Politics Live presenter Elizabeth Glinka said to her today, "You're on programmes like this. You're all over the place". 

And Elizabeth wasn't wrong. This year alone she's been on Question Time, The Andrew Marr Show, Newsnight and Politics Live (repeatedly).

Isn't the BBC enabling far-left extremism by giving her a platform so often? 

Anyhow, a chap from Guido Fawkes, Tom Harwood, has been complaining about this on Twitter:

• BBC justifying talking about communism because the BBC invites communists onto its programmes. Incredible circular logic.
• By how much they're on TV you'd be forgiven for thinking Novara Media a massively popular site, but they're simply not:

• The media coverage these guys get compared to their actual popularity is pretty staggering, to be quite honest. 

Now, it's possible, of course, that Tom is partly angling here for BBC to hand out more invites to people from Guido Fawkes, but he probably has a point. 

Anyhow, in honour of Elizabeth Glinka, here's Mikhail Glinka's beautiful 'Lullaby' from A Farewell to St. Petersburg (one of my favourite Russian songs):