The BBC is just the same. Nick Assinder's profile of Dalyell follows the same line and omits any reference to his outburst last year.

Good riddance to bad rubbish!

So the good ship Tam Dalyell sails away into an exclusion zone of his own making. Good riddance to this most pompous parliamentarian. A true bag of wind whose abscence from the House of Commons can only be of benefit to all of us.

Thank goodnes the pompous old wind bag has gone...those irritating paternalistic tones of a priviledged background cranking out daft and disastrous socialist beliefs (like 'dear old national treasure' Tony Benn)...yuk!

Of course, the much more serious point is that he got off Scott-free for his 'Jewish cabal' comments because of the totally spinelessness of the senior members of this government who constantly try to airbrush out of existence anything incovenient or damaging to the government's aims (whatever they really are...does anyone truly know what 'targets' lie behind the 'targets'...?)

Melanie Phillips is making a career out of seeing anti-Semitism everywhere she looks.

She even claims that the British media is gripped by anti-Semitism. No mention of course of the fact that the Telegraph is owned by a prominent Zionist who described Palestinians as "vile and primitive" and gave space to his Zionist wife to compare them to animals. No mention of the fact that a group of senior reporters at the Telegraph stated publicly that “serious, critical reporting of Israel is no longer tolerated” within their papers

Or that Sam Kiley was forced to resign from the Times when he tried to write about the Israeli army’s murder of 12 year old Mohammed al-Durrah.

No mention of course of course of the fact that News International is owned by Murdoch, a man on record as offering Israel "unqualified support".

Or that the BBC instructed journalists to refer to death squad murders as "targetted killings" and illegal settlements as "Jewish neighbourhoods" after pressure from the Israel government.

If that's an anti-Zionist let alone an anti-Semitic media then I too would vote for less of it.

And more than anything she never mentions the rampant Islamophobia which is a daily fact of life in this country. But then she of course contributes to it, so what should one expect.