Speccie Paxmanic by 4 June
 

No. 2851: Paxmanic


To mark the sad departure of Jeremy Paxman from Newsnight, you are invited to supply an extract from an interview with a politician or statesman in which the interviewer doggedly but unsuccessfully attempts to get a straight answer to a straight question. Please email entries (where possible), of up to 150 words, to lucy@spectator.co.uk by noon on 4 June.

Oh, blimey! Who he, and WTF should I care?

Sorry, Brian. Don't shoot the messenger. He's a TV interviewer who thinks a lot of himself. But don't they all?

Just in case anyone else was wondering, I emailed Lucy to ask if the statesman or politician can be alive or dead. The answer is yes, late or extant as you please.

That makes things more interesting, doesn't it? Thanks.

William the Silent, for the fourteenth time I'm asking you...