LONDON

A junior producer from the “Today” program — the BBC’s most-listened-to morning radio talk show — called me a few hours ago to find out, in the most delicate, tasteful and elegant way possible, whether I was sufficiently “right wing” to be interviewed on tomorrow’s post-election program. Since the other person on this particular segment of the program is supposed to be the British historian Simon Schama, and since, as the producer put it, "we know where HE stands," it seems that she an...