A couple of hours ago, I was contacted by WION, the major English language television broadcaster of India, with request that I comment on BBC reports that the Crimean bridge had been bombed and all passenger car traffic on the bridge was suspended.

The BBC prides itself on being “the world leader of Breaking News” and indeed they were true to their word on being first on the story. Their Moscow bureau chief Steve Rosenberg and team report only intermittently from Russia when there is some news development which the editors can give the necessary anti-Putin, anti-Russian spin.  The attack on the bridge suited their purposes brilliantly.

Meanwhile, The Financial Times and the New York Times so far have been very circumspect, essentially limiting their coverage to issuing a photo of the damaged section of the bridge which tells its own story: namely that this time it was not the…