I just re-watched an episode of Channel 4’s Dispatches series which I still consider to be a landmark piece of British television.
Airing in November 2009, Inside Britain’s Israel Lobby was produced by Peter Oborne, an independently minded conservative journalist who I’ve always had a lot of time for.
In more recent years, Peter has been one of a vanishingly small number of British journalists (I can probably count us on one hand) to cover the manufactured “Labour anti-Semitism crisis” with anything even approaching a critical mind.
And Peter is probably the only one of us with a mainstream media profile.
But when I talked to him on the phone the other day he told me he thought it extremely unlikely his film could be made today.
And he agrees when I ask if what was done to Jeremy Corbyn has played a part in creating this environment.