It’s so unfair. There are some people in politics that I find comfort in not taking seriously - and then John Humphrys goes and gives me some reason to feel sorry for them.

He had Mr Cameron on his programme this morning to tackle him about his announcement about grammar schools (which the Today programme had decided - not necessarily wrongly, I suspect - was intended to be a deliberately-engineered “Clause 4″ moment. However if it is that then I think Cameron has mis-played it: Blair portrayed the change to clause 4 as a battle of principle and never attempted to belittle the depth of belief of those in his party he disagreed with; Cameron has been going round personally attacking his dinosaurs, for example saying this morning that they were “splashing around in the shallow end” of policy by supporting it).

But that wasn’t what annoyed me. Humphrys was on what he no doubt regards as fine form, ranting away, peppering his style of “neutral questioning” with side-digs at Cameron, with no attempt at a question or opportunity for DC to respond, and, of course, interrupting his interviewee constantly.

And then he got on to how Cameron could be entitled to say anything about grammar schools when (apparently) more than half his shadow cabinet went to private schools and 5 were Etonians. And no sooner had he “asked” the “question” before he blundered in “I know what you’re going to say” and then outlined what he thought Cameron’s answer would be. So now we have Humphrys not only asking the questions (when he has time to fit them in), but preferring to give the answer as well! No need for an interviewee then! Why doesn’t the BBC just let Humphrys produce the entire programme as a monologue, playing all the parts himself. Or perhaps they could get Jon Culshaw in to play the parts (who at least would be funnier).

Honestly, is there no end to the arrogance of this man?

He has done it before - I recall him once asking John Prescott a question, and interrupting him after he had got out just three words of answer. And not long ago he asked Gordon Brown repeatedly the moronic question “do you think people like you?”. Gordy did quite a good job of batting it away in a moderately-statesmanlike manner, but what a stupid thing to keep asking anyone.

And sadly it operates in reverse too - I ended up being delighted last week when John Bolton of all people played him with a straight bat and pointed out the bias in all the questions he was asking. Humphers took the hump and immediately got up straight on his high horse saying that he had no views, and only asked the questions neutrally - not a perception anyone listening to his interview with Mr Cameron this morning would have taken away.

It’s a funny beast, the Today programme. Yesterday they filled up ten minutes with a thoroughly mature debate “Men gardeners or women gardeners - who’s better”. Coming up tomorrow: did Mandy Spinks snog Jimmy Snugglepups behind the bikesheds in the break?