The BBC gets it in the neck whenever Nigel Farage appears on Question Time. “Ridiculous,” said SNP spokesman Michael Russell when the former Ukip leader popped up in March for his 32nd appearance on the show; and Andrew Adonis called for Ofcom to look into what he called “the BBC’s constant promotion of Farage”.
But turn from BBC television to commercial radio and we find that Nigel Farage has his own daily show on LBC radio, the station that is becoming one of Britain’s media success stories. Every weekday evening at 7pm he’s there on LBC – Leading Britain’s Conversation, as the station’s slogan has it – and he’s banging the drum for Brexit. There’s no glimmer of any of the usual impartiality of UK broadcasting, and his topics range from abortion (he was against the repeal of Ireland’s eighth amendment) to whether he’s still running a campaign for a Nobel Peace Prize for Donald Trump (it’s on hold).
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