Just to follow up on this entry, for the record I still quite passionately support the bbc. It is currently coming under all sorts of attacks from both left and right; you have to feel quite sorry for it. The rightists say it’s too left wing, and those on the left fear it’s shifting towards the right – it cannot win. The problem is, the tory scumbags currently running the country are trying to control what the beeb says: they try to stop the bbc presenting them too negatively, or covering the real effects of the cuts. Fearing for it’s survival, the bbc has no choice but to watch what it says. It’s instincts are to be impartial and objective, but those on the right see that as having a left-wing bias. The result is that it swerves right. It’s editors probably know the shit it’s currently being forced to spew is just that, but it has no choice. Thus we should be defending the bbc against tory interference, not attacking it or calling for the end of the license fee. To do so is to simply do the bidding of it’s commercial rivals like Sky, who’d like nothing more than to see the bbc out of their way so they can ram their inane free-market bullshit down out throats.