"Why is Channel 4 Helping Huw Edwards Play the Victim When Most Mental Health Sufferers Don't Download Child Abuse Images?"

LAST night . . . when you were sitting with your better half wondering what to watch on the idiot box and bemoaning the absence of choices.

Did you turn to each other and say: “D’you know what, I’d really like to watch a documentary about the former newsreader justifying his perverted paedo urges and blaming them all on that familiar thing, mental elf.

Some of us thought it was back to Llanelli with Huw Edwards and no more would ever be heard Channel 4 has now been in discussions with Edwards over a documentary which would let him state his case Credit: PA

“Sounds a winner to me. Get the kettle chips in.”

My guess is you didn’t. My guess is that if you went through the rest of your life never hearing another word about Huw and his gallery of online paedo filth, you’d be fairly comfortable with that.

Because, let’s be honest, Huw isn’t massively important. All he did was read stuff from an autocue about how awful is, and what have you.

He was a gob on a stick, devoid of any originality, wit, analysis or humour.

He was able to read out sentences in a reasonably competent manner. That’s all. And for that ability, the

They stopped doing that when they found out what he was like — about his grooming of a young bloke who sent him the usual todgergraphs.

Well, said his defenders, what’s wrong with a todgergraph between friends? Even if Huw is paying lots of money for it and would prefer it were kept quiet. And his victim is less than a third of his age.

Well, I’ll let you decide that. Luckily, this paper brought the whole thing to national attention — vilified by Huw’s friends and the commentators and liberal Left for doing so.

But never mind, that was the end of Huw.

Back to Llanelli with the boyo and no more would ever be heard — you might have thought.

Not a bit of it. We now learn has been in which would let him state his case.

What case? There isn’t one.

What is planned, I suspect, is the usual “get out of jail” card.

“It wasn’t me, boyo, it was my mental elf, he got me into all this. Obviously, I regret some of the things I did at the time but that wasn’t really me, that was my mental elf.”

Lots of people have — bi-polar, anxiety, and so on.

These are real and horrible and debilitating concerns, for sure. But it doesn’t mean they end up downloading unpleasant images. They manage, you know, to stop a few yards short of that.

found on Edwards’ phone six instances which qualified as Class A illegal images. These can be images involving penetrative sexual activity, sexual activity with an animal, or sadism.

There should be no “get out of jail” card on a mental elf plea for that stuff.

Of course, all this happened in a week when Channel 4 was already defending itself over all that

Now, is one of C4’s most popular shows, and it is fantastically obnoxious and always has been.

Former newsreader Edwards was just a gob on a stick, devoid of any originality, wit, analysis or humour It’s time to let Huw fester in his Llanelli bolthole Credit: AFP

It is exploitative of women. It presumes that there is no difference between the way men and women view sex.

And yet, of course, there is a massive difference, as everybody who doesn’t work for a production company fully understands.

Everybody who doesn’t buy into the idiotic premise that men and women are exactly the same and want the same things.

Such an epic misconception — and one easily demonstrated by that old joke . . . 

Bloke is holding forth about a brilliant bar he has been told about.

“What’s so good about it?” “Well,” crows the bloke, “you can drink for free all night and then, at the end of the evening, they take you to a room out the back and get you laid. Multiple times.”

Wow, say his mates — and who told you about this bar?

My sister, he replies.

Everyone gets that joke and the meaning behind it.

If you set up a TV show where men and women supposedly “marry” — and then, for the benefit of the cameras, show them getting a bit jiggy on night one — you are going to end up with some very unhappy women.

As was proved beyond all doubt on .

Now, the programme faces allegations of rape from two of the female participants and an allegation of sexual assault from another.

Needless to say, the male partners deny the charges.

And I was less than convinced by some of the female testimonies in the BBC documentary exposing the whole ghastly business.

But that’s not the point.

The premise of Married At First Sight is hideously flawed — and an offence, really, to all of those who watched it or took part in it.

The question in the end is: Do we want our broadcasters to be plumbing the depths of taste, while spraying us with copious filth?

All in the name of chasing ratings and attempting to be daring and modern?

I think not.

We are collectively better than that. We don’t want to hear excusing himself, nor watch women being bullied and cajoled into having sex for our own supposed titillation.

And it’s not just

The BBC is perfectly capable of lowering itself just as much with such pandering as the execrable Smoggie Queens.

Listen, Channel 4 — maybe, you know, think again?

Let Huw fester in his Llanelli bolthole.

Just because something provokes a headline here or there, that doesn’t mean it is worth filming.

Have some taste. Have some class. Have some discernment.

THOSE Southampton fans who thought it would be a hoot to are looking a bit stupid now, aren’t they?

For once, the authorities acted with a bit of spine.

And congratulations to ’Boro chairman Steve Gibson for pursuing the case with such determination – even if the final ended up a bit of a letdown for him.

Best Southampton joke was this: Most managers like to take the positives from a training session. But Tonda Eckert was always more interested in the negatives.

AT some point, the real is going to have to stand up.

It’s all very good being all things to all men when you’re basically Mayor of Toytown and nothing you say really matters (no disrespect, you Mancs).

But at some point, he is going to have to let us know a few things. Such as where does he stand on Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s policies?

Does he think a chap with an enormous todger, or even quite a small one, can be called a woman?

Is he OK with how much we’re spaffing on welfare ? Are we going to increase defence expenditure?

Stuff like that.

Running a few buses quite well is obviously a great achievement.

But Andy won’t be able to dodge the important policy questions for long.