The inability of the ABC to see itself as others see it continues to astonish. That Ray Martin is as blind as the rest makes you wonder where he and they think the middle of the road is. This from Tim Blair: the ABC clears itself of any left bias on Q&A or in his own chosen title, LUVVIES DECIDE. The story is from the Guardian Weakly: Q&A does not have ‘leftwing anti-Coalition bias’, leaked report finds.

The ABC’s Q&A program does not have a “left wing anti-Coalition bias” and is equally a challenge to both sides of politics, according to a draft report of the long-awaited review of Q&A obtained by Guardian Australia.

The key criticism by former prime minister Tony Abbott that the popular panel program hosted by Tony Jones is a “lefty lynch mob” was effectively dismissed by the report’s authors broadcaster Ray Martin and former managing director of SBS Shaun Brown. . . .

According to the the document seen by Guardian Australia, Martin and Brown studied six months’ worth of programs aired this year and concluded that while Q&A was a “challenge” to the Coalition government in 2015 it was also a challenge to the Labor government in 2012.

Far from finding that it had too many local panelists from the left, the report said the program needed to have more Greens and independents.

The title of this post, by the way, is the title of a poem by Robbie Burns which has the appropriate title, To a Louse.