It's not good for my heart. I can barely listen to John Humphrys now without my blood pressure shooting up. He has moved way beyond being simply aggressive for the sake of aggression, and has entered another universe altogether where he defines what is acceptable behaviour.

Interviewing Thomas Friedman this morning he was at it again, the casual, blatant anti-American bias paraded as if it was only reckless rednecks who could possibly disagree.

Friedman is, of course, hardly a Bush lickspittle, but even he seemed taken aback by Humphrys. After one mini anti-Bush rant by the Today programme presenter, Friedman interjected rather meekly: "The American people elected George Bush" - to which Humphrys replied, "Just - or possibly not, as the case may be".

Then this:

"What, Thomas Friedman, could cause the Americans to pull back from this?"

"From what? Iraq?"

"No, this position that 'we are the masters and we can do whatever we want'".

I pay my licence fee to keep this man fed.
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