Cynical, Moi? I was interesting to hear Mr Snow and Humphries on the Today programme this morning discuss the subject of cynicism and politicians. Whilst I have some sympathy with Jon Snow’s view that we often start from the position that politicians are lying or at hiding things, I firmly believe they only have themselves to blame; hence the need for the more robust questioning styles of John Humphries and Jeremy Paxman. I can think of dozens of Ministers and Shadow Ministers who come on Today or Newsnight and don’t answer a single question, Howard’s inability to answer the same question fourteen times being just one extreme example. Whilst we get the politicians we deserve, they in turn get the interviewers they deserve.