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This is extraordinary from Laura Kuensberg. Polanski answered her questions but rejected her chosen framing. That's meat-and-potatoes stuff for combative interviewing. It is very telling she reaches for this one interview to illustrate some broader anti-truth/populist politics - but says nothing about how we had a Labour Party leader/PM in Keir Starmer who lied, constantly, repeatedly, and flagrantly - who invented a political character from whole cloth to dupe the Labour membership. He lied on TV constantly - big lies, small lies, serious lies and frivolous lies. And he followed on from Boris Johnson, another fabulous liar, who made his career on changing the subject and dancing around questions, much to the delight of Kuensberg and the media class, who treated him with affection and kid gloves on his path to power. I think it's obvious that Kuensberg just doesn't like or support progressive politics. That's fine. But don't try launder that into a ham-fisted critique saying the left has a problem with journalistic inquiry - and don't imply bad faith and dishonesty, when it has been progressives who called out the honest truth of Israel's genocide in Gaza while the establishment laundered it as "self-defence" or repeated nonsense about human shields.