"The real test of course of whether O'Brien is a genuine independent with anti-establishment views (as he prides himself as being) is if it were actually the case he wouldn't be hosting a live discussion programme on LBC for very long. He still is."

Yes. The Chomsky-Marr conundrum: "if you believed something different, you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting..."

-Piers Morgan has occasionally had a "truth aberration" likewise...but it never leads to a general review of the establishment framework he inhabits.