The veteran broadcaster branded the terror cell a “bunch of loser jihadists” while extolling the virtues of French culture taking in everything from Descartes to creme brulee.
In his message to IS on the BBC’s This Week, he concludes: “ISIS or ISIL or whatever name you’re going by, I’m sticking with IS, as in Islamist scumbags. I think the outcome is pretty clear to everybody but you.
“Whatever atrocities you are currently capable of committing you will lose. In a 1,000 years’ Paris that glorious city of light will still be shining bright as will every city like it whereas you will be as dust along with a ragbag of fascists, Nazis and Stalinists that have previously dared to challenge democracy and failed.”