Stewart’s always been like this. The difference was Richard Gordon would rein him like a benevolent head teacher. I was going to say McIntyre is the supply teacher who can’t control an unruly classroom but that’s not true, he’s the shit-stirring older kid egging everyone on. There seems to have been a conflation over the past few years with people shouting at each other and ‘debate’, not just in this show but right across MSM, and as has been said it’s clearly an editorial choice. Let’s make it more like Twitter, will make great radio, which is fine if your audience is the sort of people who call in the Daily Record Hotline (is that still a thing?). Sad because it used to be a good, if slightly naff, listen.