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It's the same on all political shows now - part of the reason Question Time has been completely unwatchable for a couple of years, arguing over the ideology rather than the facts of the matter at hand.

Politics over policy. I'd say a lot of the issues go back to the 2002 review of political programmes that basically decided that political programmes should favour maximising the audience over analysing policy, with that compounded by the desire for social media clippability and obsession with everything being a debate in the last decade. And, as interestednovice alludes to, it's just chasing a ghost - ordinary viewers aren't really interested in tuning into a politics programme and the people actually interested in politics just find it simplistic and/or off-puttingly argumentative.

What gets me so much in that the politics department within BBC News remains very healthily sized - there are more than enough politics correspondents and policy editors from other departments to be able to deliver this kind of analysis on these programmes. It's a choice not to and has just led the BBC's TV politics output to just be this sort of shouty and unenlightening mess. Luckily, the radio equivalents have largely escaped these pitfalls.