An interesting little snippet on “Have I Got News For You” last night: the odd-one-out round featured Fidel Castro appearing on Cuban TV in a drive for energy-efficient cooking. Comes the quip from compere Des Lynam (scripted, of course, by the smart young things at the Beeb), “Cuba often has electricity shortages, what with all the electrodes being attached to testicles…” What? Is the Beeb really dropping in a criticism of Cuba here? That’s very out of character. “…at Guantanamo Bay“. Ah yes, of course. Silly me. Smirks all round, and wild applause from the audience.
I imagine if you asked most of the audience, or indeed the writers of the show, for a country that practised torture, their first (only?) response would be America. Splashing urine on a Koran, attaching electrodes to testicles, a gulag where millions are worked to death, what’s the difference?
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