Not wanting to join in with the superficial judgements but.....John Humphrys, unlike his counterpart female newscasters, has become a shriveled and unattractive old fool.

"It must be so demeaning to be judged by one's looks & ignored in every other respect," thought every woman in the history of the universe.

Isn't it time someone gave that pompous smart ass Humphreys less respect and more of the hard time he deserves. Humphreys has spent too long making a living out of what he imagines himself to be. This self appointed tribune of the people, oozing smug self importance, is a has been with very little going for him. He needs cutting down to size and that should not be difficult. Ed Miliband could do it.

@John, London. Rather TB's 'rictus' and full employment and feeling proud of my country than fat David's shiny pillow face and all our rights disappearing down the swanny. Just saying.

Several of the Republican presidential hopefuls look as if they've come straight out of Hollywood's Central Casting.
A handsome maturity and a full-head of hair makes one presidential material these days.
Newt among the grey-hairs running for the Republican ticket, and with no leading-man profile to boot, may however still sink his glossier rivals.
And yet no Jewish-American, Republican or Democrat, is running.
Of course, Barry Goldwater had his shott but at the time the electorate thought he was a mite quick on the trigger. Shades of 'HIgh Noon' when the townspeople for no good reason couldn't back the sheriff.
For some time our group deplored the fact that no British Jew had attained the office of prime minister;
then it dawned on us that D'Israeli had led the Conservative Party into government.
Yes, the Conservatives had the first Jewish PM and not so long ago the first woman PM.
Surely there can't be a hint of anti-Semitism in the attacks on Ed Milliband. The Tories have a reasonable number of British Jewry on the coalition back benches, and besides those aides protecting the London mayor, they have many local councillos in Westminster and on other Greater London councils.
No, it seems anti-Semitism is not the elephant in the room. Still, it is getting a little personal; references to physical appearance and vocalisation.
And when there was a rumpus about politicians and police and journalists being a little too cosy nary a word about Free Masonry, the Knights of St Columbanus, Rotarians and Opus Dei to name but a few ,
After all Dizzy was Queen Victroria's fave PM.

Boy Scout

So we should judge them on what, exactly?...what they say?
...or do wait until later and judge them not on what they say, but what they tell us they actually meant when they said it?

See I'd like to judge them on whether they're in thrall to the free market...but then I'd have nobody to vote for, except my local Socialist Labour candidate-which I did- who lost his deposit again. Mind you, he is one ugly fucker.

Politics...it's a friggin minefield.

I'm absurdly attractive. All it does is remind me daily of how luck forms us. I didn't do nothing for my looks, nor did Camenron for his upbringing, or Milibland for his brain. So I guess being good looking might not be a bad thing.

no judging on looks then,though it does depend what you mean by looks, someone can be very attractive, but look at me in a menacing way, if i judge them on that nasty look, what does that count as?

but anyway, what i am worrying about regarding miliband's leadership of the labour party is that he is at risk of moving it to the right of cameron, and i am going to have to vote conservative, to keep out a party of populist right wing bastards.

'He will be the next PM of this country whether you like it or not'

Actually I think it depends on votes, so as a voter it does depend on me, whether you like it or not.

P.S/ It not that he's ugly, its that he looks like Wallace without Gromit, excpet with Nick Park to add the animation he is as lifeless incapable of any sense of urgency as a piece of plasticine.