Last appearance on Newsnight for Jeremy Paxman

[The Esk]

This evening's Newsnight will be hosted by Jeremy Paxman for the very last time.

I will remember fondly his interview with Conrad Black whom Paxman repeatedly called a "crook", and on occasions he got the better of Blair which was no mean feat!

I am personally not sure where he ranks amongst other political interviewers, others such as Robin Day, John Snow and in his earlier years John Humphries, whilst less entertaining generally drew more out of politicians than Paxman himself. He certainly was no David Frost!

Nice collection of Paxman clips on the Guardian website:

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/apr/30/jeremy-paxmans-top-10-newsnight-moments

 

[davek]

That programme is almost unwatchable these days. The decent journos like Paul Mason, Michael Crick, Gavin Esler have all jumped the ship, replaced by Tory placemen and women like Alegra Stratton, Laura Kuennsberg, Chris Cook. A real rats nest of right wingers.

Gove marked their card before the last election when he basically threatened them on one programme. And that Lord McAlpine story looked for all the world like the set up story that finally brought Newsnight to heel.

There's virtually no open and honest appraisal of Britain's political economy on tv today.

 

[Walken]

That programme is almost unwatchable these days. The decent journos like Paul Mason, Michael Crick, Gavin Esler have all jumped the ship, replaced by Tory placemen and women like Alegra Stratton, Laura Kuennsberg, Chris Cook. A real rats nest of right wingers.

Gove marked their card before the last election when he basically threatened them on one programme. And that Lord McAlpine story looked for all the world like the set up story that finally brought Newsnight to heel.

There's virtually no open and honest appraisal of Britain's political economy on tv today.

what really gets me is you still get the 'leftie bbc' comments coming out, they've been tory as hell for years now

 

[The Esk]

Good discussion on Iraq/Kurdistan at present

 

[The Esk]

Peter Mendelson on next - should be good

 

[magicjuan]

Thanks

Peter Mendelson on next - should be good

He is the quintessential definition of the words odious cant <pure cockney voice>...

 

[Deleted member 28206]

This defo needs to go into the middleclass thread.

I've never watched newsnight in my life

 

[The Esk]

Thanks

He is the quintessential definition of the words odious cant <pure cockney voice>...

Without Peter we would never have had 13 years of Labour Government - regardless of the shortcomings of that Government, they re-built the NHS, funded education and reversed the cuts in social funding - can you imagine how we would be if a Tory Government had maintained power since 1979?

That is Mendelson's greatest legacy!

 

[Walken]

Without Peter we would never have had 13 years of Labour Government - regardless of the shortcomings of that Government, they re-built the NHS, funded education and reversed the cuts in social funding - can you imagine how we would be if a Tory Government had maintained power since 1979?

That is Mendelson's greatest legacy!

he did also champion business in the north west a fair bit, well, more so than others have done

 

[The Esk]

Thanks Jeremy, it's been very entertaining!

 

[tommye]

This defo needs to go into the middleclass thread.

I've never watched newsnight in my life

oh Bryan......

 

[The Esk]

This defo needs to go into the middleclass thread.

I've never watched newsnight in my life

Bryan, you have missed so much...........

 

[magicjuan]

Apologies, I am a socialist, he makes my flesh crawl.

He also fundamentally turned Labour into a diet tory party. A party that wanted a lot of war time. A party that chose not to repeal all the anti workers rights policies the tories created.

Want to know what 13 more years of tories would have been like? I want to know what those years under a proper Labour government could have achieved

 

[Pienaar's gloves]

Apologies, I am a socialist, he makes my flesh crawl.

He also fundamentally turned Labour into a diet tory party. A party that wanted a lot of war time. A party that chose not to repeal all the anti workers rights policies the tories created.

Want to know what 13 more years of tories would have been like? I want to know what those years under a proper Labour government could have achieved

There was no potential for a 'proper Labour government', they were unelectable, as proven by the way that they weren't elected.

Having just this week finished Mandelson's book, he is a communist who realised that socialism had died in the mainstream.

 

[Walken]

Apologies, I am a socialist, he makes my flesh crawl.

He also fundamentally turned Labour into a diet tory party. A party that wanted a lot of war time. A party that chose not to repeal all the anti workers rights policies the tories created.

Want to know what 13 more years of tories would have been like? I want to know what those years under a proper Labour government could have achieved

an unattainable dream in the modern world though, not saying I disagree with what you desire