The Insiders In a 2002 interview with the Observer, the BBC’s John Cody Fidler-Simpson CBE of Kabul, to give him his full name and title, was asked to define the ‘essential qualities’ of a journalist. Simpson responded with typical left-field quirkiness: ‘There's something slightly wrong with

Some of the responses are incredible with how genuinely petty some journalists get with even minor criticisms, and how often they rely on dismissal of public complaints as robots, Joseph Stalin or some other bullshit.