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  This was ambush journalism at it's worst. Cheap and tawdry and sensationalist.
  I don't particularly like Johnson with his fake buffoonerisms and his switching of policies to suit whoever is talking to him or might possibly vote for him (note his 180 degree turnaround on environmental policies and then back again) and the way He dismisses critics by cracking some obscure ancient Greek quotation - it's all nonsense.
  As for Eddie Mair, one of the BBCs finest broadcasters, it was unbecoming of Him to hijack an interview which was held to deal with a subject unconnected with what We witnessed.
  Most of the things picked up in the interview were nothing more than assertions. "You're a nasty piece of work" and Conrad Black's opinion of Johnson are as enlightening as saying My mate Bob down the Dog and Duck reckons you're a wrong 'un make no mistake gor blimey guvnor.
  As for the Darius Guppy affair that's old news and Johnson probably did what many of us would have done in that situation by taking the heat out of that phone conversation and not acting upon it.
  Why is that other politicians are not subject to the same treatment? There are many politicians who are interviewed regularly on television, so much so that they are probably on a retainer, and it seems that their past deeds are swept under the carpet and forgotten about.
  One other thing to note is when politicians are interviewed journalists are never briefed well enough in any subject to give us a rounded representation of facts and a robust interview because they really know nothing about much. It seems that their only source of information on any given subject is Wikipedia and Labour party press releases.
  I suspect Eddie Mair felt particularly proud post interview but really all it turned out to be was cheap daytime Jeremy Kyle television.

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