Here’s a little moment of delight courtesy of the invaluable, if slightly obsessive, EU Referendum blog, a daily must-read for anyone interested in the goings on in the den of thieves:

“Seen on BBC’s Newsnight programme yesterday, a report on the UN “Oil for Food” scandal. In what was supposed to be a critical piece, we heard Peter Marshall, the Beebie reporter state, with not a hint of a blush:

“The Asian tsunami has provided a perfect example of the need for an efective UN under an activist Secretary General. This time Kofi Annan was quick off the mark and America’s independent efforts soon looked superfluous.”

As a reminder, the BBC is funded by a television ‘license’. That’s an annual tax on any Briton so bold as to want to own a TV, whether or not he watches the BBC. Don’t pay it, and you go to jail.

Free country? Not really.