Can't agree with you about Walden...anyone as right-wing as him and who adored Thatcher, so much, would be incapable of objectivity and high standards...propagating and defending these sorts of policies inevitably entails deception and trickery.

I found a lot of his so called "incisive" and "combative" interviews, like the famous one with Thatcher about the resignation of Lawson, more like an exercise in finding out how many angels can dance on the point of a pin...ok, her got her in a bit of a flummox about Lawson because of his insistence on a "when and where" type question, but hardly any seismic or helpful revelations that mattered to the great unwashed...totally "Westminster Bubble" stuff.
But he wasn't about the people, was he? He was all for quashing union rights and scabbing for Murdoch.
When you get liars like Lawson exclaiming that Walden was "probably the most formidable and serious political interviewer in the business", you know something's not right!