Press On

Weeping and wailing in certain quarters about the Establishment figures who have appeared or who do appear on Press TV. Does it occur to the weepers and wailers that those appearances prove the falsehood of their calumnies against that station?

Andrew Gilligan, now their attack dog against Ken Livingstone and, rather amusingly for the man who once exposed the Dodgy Dossier, against the mighty Lutfur Rahman, used to be the highest paid presenter on Press TV. Has Oliver Kamm never appeared on it? I should be truly shocked if that were so.

On 9th of last month, Press TV reported the student demonstration in London while the BBC and Sky News refused to, instead pretending that it was not happening. Press TV alone reported the recent attack on the Iranian Embassy in London.

No wonder that there is now a sustained campaign to close down Press TV, with Ofcom acting for all practical purposes as an arm of whichever rogue element in the Foreign Office has secured the appointment of the current Ambassador to Israel, a man who publicly aspires to citizenship of the country to which he has been posted, and who has apologised for the arrest of Tzipi Livni's anti-British terrorist parents.