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My wife, having a rough idea about my interest in all things EU, mentioned that there was a political program she thought I would want to watch this evening, the title of the program was How Euro are you? At which point I opted not to waste my time, and decided to sleep through what ever she preferred to watch instead.

According to EU Referendum I made the right choice,: “I had never before marked down Andrew Marr, former BBC political editor, as a fool. But, at the very least, though, he displayed a monumental lack of judgement in allowing himself to be recruited by the BBC to host an unspeakably dire programme on the European Union tonight called How Euro are you?.

The tone of the programme was set by Marr’s co-host, Dara O’Briain, supposedly a “highly popular comedian in Ireland and has fast become a household name in the UK” a man, fortunately I had never heard of and do not wish to hear of again.

Hardly worth fisking, in fact, the programme was so utterly appalling that I stuck only 38 minutes of it before turning it off. But what came over loud and clear was what could only have been a deliberate policy decision of eliding the word Europe – a continent – with the European Union – a political construct. No one in the “game” can be unaware of the difference and it is a mark of the BBC’s inherent bias that it chooses to confuse the two.

Its other little trick was to suggest, slyly, that the greatest problem with the EU was its threat to our “national identity”, something which is the least of our worries – although listening to the BBC hacks and hackettes bleating about metres and kilometres sometimes makes you wonder if you are in a foreign land.”