Both Jon Snow of Channel 4 News and Jeremy Paxman of Newsnight had interviews with Blair’s former media chief Alastair Campbell yesterday. My old colleague Jon Snow was steamrollered by Alastair’s defence of his old boss’ record. And Paxo also failed to lay a glove on the King of Spin. It was left to former Tory leader Michael Howard to mount an extraordinary assault on Campbell, accusing him – not Blair – of lieing and of poisoning the British political culture. Go and have a look it’s

a fantastic exchange which proves that when it comes to bitter verbal battles, the fighting is best left to the politicians (and let’s be honest, Alastair Campbell is one of the best politicians Labour has ever had.)