Given the almost total acquiescence of Britain’s political and media elite to the Israel lobby the programme was a brave piece of journalism by Mr Oborne and Channel 4. The complete lack of transparency about what is going on in Britain’s name is an indictment not just of the politicians who kiss the lobby’s ring, but of the journalists and proprietors who remain silent when it comes to reporting the lobby.

I thought the case of Jonathan Dimbleby was particularly instructive as to the sort of standards that prevail when it comes to the lobby: he writes an article on the BBC’s Trust’s investigation and criticism of Jeremy Bowen, and now he too is being investigated by the very same Trust.

And where’s the fearless organisations dedicated to freedom of speech (Liberty etc) and transparency in government? No doubt like the rest of our political class - compromised or subdued by the lobby.

The influence and opaqueness of the lobby gives rise to the question of whose interest are our political class working for when it comes to the Middle East: ours or Israel’s?