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Pathetic and shallow, Romesh failed to challenge Ugandans on their views... CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV


CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: You think Bank Holiday traffic in Britain is bad? Don't visit Kampala, capital of Uganda, where the city's four million residents treat commuting as a blood sport.

Sketching at Valle Crucis Abbey in Wales with Jim and Nancy Moir, on Painting Birds (Sky Arts), guest Joe Pasquale spotted a wood pigeon. Even though Alex's views were not likely to change, plenty of presenters could have challenged her more rigorously — barrister Rob Rinder, for instance, or comedian Susan Calman, who also has a law degree. The shallowness of Romesh's approach, and his general lack of research, meant he also failed to ask anything about the Lord's Resistance Army, a militia in the north of Uganda notorious for recruiting child soldiers.

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