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[poliphilo]

Jeremy Hunt- the Culture Minister- was complaining the other day about left-wing bias at the BBC. I've been thinking recently- mainly in relation to the reporting of the student protests- that the BBC has been bending overmuch towards the right. This is good, isn't it? If both extremes think the BBC is prejudiced against them then the BBC must be doing exactly what it's supposed to do and steering a course straight down the middle.

Hunt is the one whose name James Naughtie committed a spoonerism on. I guess he's smarting from that.

I've learned that Charlie Gilmour, the silly young toff who swung on the flag, is an old boy of my school- Lancing College. I'll bet they don't mention that in any of the glossy magazines they send me. 

Comments

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

Ah poliphilo - you usually keep quiet about your own life of privilege! I used to live just up the road from Lancing College - the chapel looked fabulous floodlit from the Worthing to Brighton road, like Hogwarts, in fact, and a far cry from my own tatty comprehensive.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Lancing Chapel is fabulous- altogether my favourite Victorian gothic building.

Lancing has a history of producing louche, rackety and subversive figures- for instance Evelyn Waugh and the very scandalous Tom Driberg MP. More recently the lefty playwright David Hare.

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you see yourself in that way!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I would rather take my stand with Waugh and Driberg than with the worthy Anglican clergypersons who are Lancing's other speciality.

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

Maybe you are both, that is your USP.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

You're right, it is.