This unspeakable mealy-mouthed buffoon, with his clipped Home Counties vowels and Oxbridge stammer, sounds like Frank Gardiner, but without the blimpish rage boiling below the surface.

Sebastian Usher imparts his err, umm, wisdom to New Zealand listeners

RNZ National, Tuesday 8 October 2024, 9:40 a.m.

SEBASTIAN USHER: ...the uh, uh, biggest attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust, er, aah, it's been a day of mourning as you would expect, but it hasn't stopped ahhh Israel's operations. ...

KATHRYN RYAN: What is extraordinary is just how long and intensive this war has been, Sebastian. There seems to be a strategy to continue...

SEBASTIAN USHER: Mmmm.

KATHRYN RYAN: There doesn't seem to be an exit strategy.

SEBASTIAN USHER: Well, the Israeli Government would say it DOES offer an exit strategy. ... We are expecting any day, any day now, a very strong Israeli response to Iran's rocket attacks. ...

KATHRYN RYAN: We are looking at Hamas figures, from its Health Ministry there...

SEBASTIAN USHER: In Lebanon we see Hezbollah, the proscribed terrorist group.... uh, errr, ahhh... A response, sooner or later, is what, what we are expecting.

KATHRYN RYAN: Thank you Sebastian Usher. Now to Sally Stevenson, in Gaza. She's with Médecins Sans Frontières.

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https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-69008963

For masochists, here's some more Kathryn Ryan....

https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/01/bradley-manning-show-trial-begins-in.html
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/search?q=dame+ann