Marr was appalling, dire, awful, terrible.

Call it what you will.  I don't know why he just didn't sit on Mandy's lap.  It got worse as the interview went on.  Then at the end Mandy was given a free run to chat Marianne Faithful up while giving her CD a plug.  He finished off by saying that he couldn't wait to get home to listen to it.  No doubt he will, after he gets on the phone to rubbish a few Cabinet colleagues.

On the Royal Mail:

I didn't pick this fight - nor do I wish to be defined by it.

Who did then?  No follow up from Marr

On the G20:

People frankly should take pride in the fact that its we in Britain holding the G20 and our government driving it.

This is rubbish.  The chair of the G20 is held on a rotating basis.  It is just circumstance that Brown has the chair.  Marr did not even bother to pick up on this.

On regulation:

Of course lessons have got to be learned, but the lesson that has got to be learned is that the entire financial system is changing in a much quicker way than expected.

Excuse me.  Who set up the regulation system in the first place.  Brown and his pal Greenspan.

On Brown:

He works like a Trojan.

Marr just sat there.  No follow up.  Nothing on whether he is taking the right decisions.  Nothing about Brown’s judgement on the Lloyds/HBOS merger that has cost the country a packet.

Why do I watch?  Perhaps I just hope that one Sunday David Frost will make a surprise return.  Oh and next Sunday the programme will have a Scottish dimension.  How exciting!  Perhaps sometime soon Marr will condescend to have the odd Tory on.

One other matter.  I am all for the arts, which Marr seems to wallow in to show us all he is not just a one dimensional nerd but has a hinterland.  A little sport would be good.  You never know, this may improve the ratings.

Perhaps it would be a good idea if the London Marathon was held every Sunday, which is the only event the stops this awful programme from being broadcast.