Was it as good as To Hell in a Handcart? Richard Littlejohn in The War on Britain's Jews? Photograph: Channel 4
Being a Tottenham Hotspur supporter, Richard Littlejohn is something of an honorary Jew, gleefully referring to himself as a "yiddo" on his radio shows. So perhaps it's best to think of last night's documentary The War on Britain's Jews? as his coming of age as a race issues commentator, his bar mitzvah if you will. The pie-faced iconoclast shone a light on the ugly anti-Semitism he argues is thriving in Britain today.
Single-handedly reviving the art of damning with faint praise, The Times' Andrew Billen called the show "passably credible". He continued that Littlejohn's presentation was "hindered by his addiction to cliché". Patricia Wynn Davies in The Telegraph found the argument that anti-Israel feeling feeds into increasing anti-Semitism "quite convincing" though the Radio Times' Alison Graham pointed out that Littlejohn was "not a man who will ever get a stiff neck from craning to hear both sides of any argument". And in this particular corner of liberal iniquity our own Gareth McLean saw the irony in Littlejohn's project, calling the prospect "akin to Hannibal Lecter advocating vegetarianism" but like all the reviewers he acknowledged that it was a worthy subject, whatever their misgivings about the messenger.
So what did you think? Did having Littlejohn as a presenter detract from the show's central message? And is everything the fault of Guardianista scum?
