The BBC World Service are at it again. Their left-wing bias was made evident again in a broadcast by a John Simpson who chose to review the worldwide role of the United States in the most biased and uncomplimentary of ways, which does little credit to the BBC's reputation of objective and fair reporting of current events.

His technique was to focus on all the dubious areas of American foreign policy and cast doubt on American influence in the Middle East and blame a renewal of the arms race on the United States. And who does he cite to press home his opinion?

None other than Vladimir Putin, the President of a country which, for over 50 years, kept the world in a state of anxiety over the Cold War.

Mr Simpson found it more important to spout his anti-US propaganda then to acknowledge America's sacrifice of 4,000 lives in order to preserve his freedoms and liberty to criticise the greatest nation on earth. Mr Simpson and others like him owe a huge debt of gratitude to the United States for living in a world made safer by its endeavours.

One wonders why the BBC is exhibiting this left-wing tendency and straying farther and farther away from its precepts as set down in its Charter.