If Coffee Housers missed it, I’d thoroughly recommend watching Kirsty Wark’s interview of George Osborne on Newsnight. It could easily be mistaken for a parody of BBC bias.
Wark starts off by suggesting that the Tory governments of the 1980s are to blame for the current crisis; even Gordon Brown hasn’t attempted to claim this. She then proceeds to be unable to understand why the Tories think differently about bankers’ bonuses now that they are being paid for with taxpayer money rather than bank profits.
I’m normally reluctant to claim that the BBC is biased, much of its political coverage is excellent. But the contrast between the treatment that Osborne received, and the assumptions that lay behind the questions he was asked, and the easy ride that James Purnell got earlier in the programme was telling.
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