So Boulton lost it. Ofcom should just cool it

Alastair Campbell is a talented, abrasive fellow, who loses his temper and makes those around him lose theirs. Did he say anything particularly outrageous in that notorious Sky News confrontation with Adam Boulton? Nothing much on the Richter or rictus grin scale. Should Boulton have kept his cool? That would probably have been a good idea. But does he deserve a Full Monty Ofcom inquiry as hundreds of complaints flood in? Absolutely not. Sky (despite the facile linkage) isn't Fox News. It's the doggedly professional outfit that helped bring us those debates; and Boulton embodies that, too. Anyone can get dog tired and tetchy after an exhausting election. Anyone – interrupting, arguing, reacting – can take a bit of a rhetorical pop at Campbell. Manifestly, he enjoys it. Why try to shut a good show down?