That’s the essence of the hype surrounding Guido, that he’s somehow ‘influential’ – he even made one of those tiresome newspaper list of the most ‘influential’ people in the media a short while back (in the low 40s, as I recall) which sound impressive until you looked a bit more closely and notice that Polly Pot was the winner – but come to think of it, just what can one actually point to in order to say that Guido has actually influenced anything?

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