Yet another demonstration on Newsnight last night of the BBC's famed objectivity. At the same time as Tony Blair's shambolic reshuffling of his Cabinet, Michael Howard carried out a clinically efficient reshuffle of the Tory Shadow Cabinet, in which he brought back to the front bench the former Cabinet minister John Redwood. Redwood, a fellow of All Souls, has clearly been brought in to provide some much needed intellectual ballast to Howard's team. Undoubtedly he is a controversial figure, because he was a key figure in an adminstration which came to be regarded as both harsh and incompetent. But Newsnight was intent on destroying him before even introducing him. In the introduction to the item, it played the most toe-curling coverage of his whole time as a minister -- when he was filmed failing to sing the words to the Welsh national anthem during his time as Welsh Secretary. Ok, it was a revealing moment. But of his whole considerable contribution to British politics, this was the image Newsnight chose to stick him with -- and not once but twice during the item, with presenter Jeremy Paxman making a further caustic allusion to his lack of prowess in the Welsh language. Is this kind of playground spitefulness towards people whose political views they don't like really suitable for BBC television's flagship current affairs programme?