Humphrys, Today on Radio Four & BBC Treachery

Discussing President Putin's re-election prospects, John Humphrys asked at 0721 GMT this morning "Are the Russian people aware that they don not have a proper democracy?"

If only the same question could be put to him about Britain, with the follow-up as to "whether he was aware of the role played in its destruction by his own broadcasting, the flagship programme he serves as figurehead and the licence paying corporation which grows fat from the disenfranchised voters they were supposed to serve!"