I had a little chuckle when I woke up this morning. I was about to tell Chris about this bizarre nightmare I’d had: that Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had given Channel 4’s Christmas message.

The same Mahmoud Ahmadinejad whose regime executes people for being gay, sentences women to be stoned to death for adultery and sponsors terrorism. The same Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who denies the holocaust and who is proudly preparing a nuclear arsenal with which to destroy Israel and slaughter millions of Jews.

Then I remembered that it wasn’t a bizarre nightmare. Channel 4 really had done it.

What a low. This makes the ‘Not In My Name’ march to keep Saddam Hussein in power and the ‘We Are All Hezbollah’ farce seem almost dignified and thought-through in comparison. When the National Union Of Journalists voted to boycott Israel, I wrote that it made me ashamed to be in the same profession as those behind the move.

But after this latest farce, I actually feel ashamed to be in the same species as Channel 4’s Dorothy Byrne and everyone else involved in putting this man on our televisions.

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