BBC Radio 4 Cognitive Disonnance Central

Radio 4 Today programme does cognitive disonnance on automatic pilot.Every other item is a shameless pitch for more government involvement.No matter what is under discussion the conclusion is invariably: the government needs to do something about it.My own solution to this is to mandate that a Conservative minded journalist like Andrew Neil be put into the Today prog and shake things up.

Imagine the likes of Naughtie and Humphries having to deal with Neil and the tension that would produce.Right now it is like a morgue,an air of death pervades the studio.Liberal assumptions of the programme and its ethos need to be counterpointed by a Conservative perspective and this should be mandated by the government in the name of balance and fairness.

Ultimately the BBC should be sold off to the highest bidder but in the meantime fairness and balance must be introduced into the programme composition as a matter of urgency.It is nothing short of a scandal that things have been allowed to develop where the Leftist tendentiousness of practically the whole output of radio 4 has gone unchecked and unchallenged for literally decades and it represents an abuse by the BBC establishment of its powers on an egregious and disturbing scale.