Of all the apologists for Fidel Castro paraded by the BBC over recent days Richard Gott was perhaps the worst. As reported by GQ, Gott was Seumas Milne’s old-Wykehamist mate, the communist traitor who was exposed years ago as an agent of influence in the pay of the KGB:

Gott’s posthumous propaganda and historical revisionism on behalf of the dead military dictator went unchecked on the BBC News Channel. Thanks to Douglas Murray on Sky News Gott did not get a free ride…