Jeremy Paxman

Paxman: the gowk goes over the top.

Dewi on January 25, 2012, 7:14 am

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Playing the man I know but needs saying: Not Newsnight’s finest hour. After a twee introduction from a whisky sampling reporter then came Paxman’s interview with the Times’s Briton of the year. You can see some of it here. Zimbabwe, Mugabe, One party State?? Opting out of the BBC? the cheek of it all. Some of us might have been interested in what Alex had to say in the Hugo Young Lecture. (Worth watching the that sample video from the …

Jeremy Paxman: “This is an ex-email”

Pete Baker on February 2, 2011, 5:25 pm

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BBC Newsnight’s Jeremy Paxman has had fun signing off on the last ever Newsnight daily email. Here is the text Good morning. And good afternoon. Or possibly, good evening. Welcome to positively the last Newsnight daily email. The time has come to put this exercise in fatuousness out of its misery. It gives me no pleasure to say that it should have happened years ago. Actually, I lie. There is more joy in heaven, etc, etc. The reason for killing …