What a shame that Martha Kearney is leaving newsnight. She is off to present the World at One. If only more broadcast journalists shared her ability to explore real issues and the political manoevering behind them – and to ask a difficult question without turning an interview into an exercise in personal vanity.

There is an important (and seemingly never-ending) debate about the role of the media in politics. Things would be a lot more healthy if that kind of journalism was rewarded more often.

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