If, for some unfathomable reason, you missed Newsnight last night, do make sure you see, somehow, the interview between presenter Victoria Derbyshire and the former deputy assistant to Donald Trump, Sebastian Gorka. Derbyshire has had it coming for a long time. She believes it is sufficient, when interviewing somebody who takes a Trumpish view of the world, simply to screech her idiotic objections and prevent the interviewee from speaking at all.
This happens every time a supporter of Trump is allowed on to her show. She is as bad as Maitlis, except without the charisma. Gorka refused to stand for it and told her three times to shut up – which, in the end, Derbyshire did while glowering like a smacked arse.
“77 million Americans have spoken.”
— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) April 2, 2025
Following Trump’s announcement, Dr Sebastian Gorka – Deputy Assistant to Donald Trump – calls Trump's tariffs a “reset”.
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Derbyshire’s animus is so transparent and infantile and very obviously in breach of the BBC’s requirement to be even-handed. But that notion has disappeared entirely. Earlier this week the BBC’s North American correspondent, Nomia Iqbal allowed a six second (approx.) clip of a pro Trump/Musk supporter in a four-minute package about the election for the Wisconsin supreme court (a story of vanishingly small import, incidentally). The rest of the feature was anti-Musks expressing their righteous fury. Even that one pro-Musk quote was caveated, in advance, by Iqbal. I will be complaining about this obvious bias to the BBC and shall let you know how I get on.
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