And it's extremely embarassing for the BBC that somebody like him would lay into them like that. That's good enough for me.

I know people who think the BBC are the bee's knees and won't hear a word against them. They've also got huge respect for Owen Jones. I can't wait to hear what they think of this article.

Ask yourself what would the Palestinians think of this article. Or even Jonathan Cook.

You don't have to praise Jones. Praise the article. They are separate things. It's like the genius of Wagner alongside his anti semitism. Or the genius of the novelist Knut Hamsun alongside his devotion to Hitler. Take the good and leave the bad.

There was a sculptor once who did what were widely acknowledged as wonderful sculptures of children. But after his death it was discovered that he was a paedophile and abused his child models. That turned a lot of people off the sculptures. But why would the sculptures themselves, inanimate objects, suddenly change? Can one still like the sculptures while holding the sculptor in high contempt?

I don't know. I'm just asking. I'd probably feel like I was colluding somehow. But I'd rather I didn't.