A Savage Ban (2)

Not too sure who Michael White is discussing here - himself maybe?

"The man may well be a nasty piece of work, a self-pitying lout with an inflated, if fragile, sense of his own importance."

"....the sound of a.... [British journalist].....type who gets handsomely paid to hand it out, squealing like a stuck pig when someone duffs him back....."

Michael White seems to believe he is the 'guardian' of public opinion - in common with his colleague, Polly 'The Parrot' Toynbee.