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A GLIMPSE INSIDE THE BBC MIND-SET

Stephen Pollard has a brief but enlightening encounter when a researcher calls to discuss his slot on breakfast TV:

"Researcher: Why do you think the exit polls were wrong, so that we were all so disappointed by the eventual result?

Me: We weren't all disappointed. Not everyone shares the BBC's anti-Bush leftie bias. I was delighted and relieved that the free world will continue to be led by a man who understands the threat we face.

Researcher (said with an air of giggling mystification): Oh gosh, I'm sorry, I forgot you were pleased by the result."

Incidentally, Stephen also asks for nominations of pundits whose forecasts, always 100% wrong, can be taken as a trusty guide to the real world. I propose the Independent's magnificently unreliable Mary Dejevsky. Among her gems last year was a column suggesting that all those American troops massed on the Iraqi border were just a gigantic bluff. This week she was plugging the prospects for the EU, which means, of course, that it is utterly doomed. Start making your asylum plans now.

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