Scottish Daily Mail

ITTLEJOHN

- richard.littlejohn@dailymail.co.uk

ONE of the questions readers ask me most frequently is: why aren’t you on Question Time any more? The simple answer is that life’s too short. Been there, done that, for 20-odd years, including live from Miami, with Leftie propagandi­st Michael Moore — the Lord Haw-Haw of the War On Terror — and Bill Clinton’s brief, who came up with the line: depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is, over the Monica Lewinsky business. It wasn’t that they stopped asking, just that I can’t be bothered to appear on a programme I don’t watch. The panel’s too big, the audience is rigged, Dimbleby looks bored stiff. Plus, they’ve started recruiting guests you’ve never heard of, to make the show more ‘diverse’. Having said all that, I stumbled across QT last week. We stuck with it for ten minutes because Prue Leith was on the panel. Frankly, they’d have been better off with Prue in the chair, given the way she used to deal head mistressly (is that a word?) with that skinny Irish geezer and the bald bloke from the Guardian on her cookery show. On Thursday, there was a 20-something nonentity shouting at Liam Fox over Brexit, and everything else vaguely Tory. Who was it, I asked my wife? Not a clue, she said. Then the caption came up revealing him as ‘George The Poet’. Eh? Who the hell is George The Poet, and what’s he doing on one of the BBC’s flagship political shows? Actually, maybe I should go back on QT — provided I can appear alongside Bob The Builder, Spit The Dog, Thomas The Tank Engine, and Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner.

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