Know Your Enemy

"The art of the political interview, Piers, is to push your interviewee hard - not let them spout self-evident tosh. That's just showbiz."

Eminent BBC journalist John Simpson on Piers Morgan's laughable interview with Donald Trump. Morgan, inevitably, immediately resorted to name-calling, branding Simpson an "egotistical charlatan" and a "pompous old prune".

One of them is a veteran of numerous war zones, while the other should be sent to one, and with a massive target painted on his chest.