BBC Beyond Shame

The relish with which the BBC repeated over and over 'a senior minister in the Thatcher government' last week was telling enough.Now we learn the whole thing was a tissue of lies and smears against the gentleman in question and the Conservative Party.They should both sue the organisation for millions of pounds.The BBC is drinking in the Last Chance Saloon.Will this be the tipping point to breaking it up and putting it out to private tender? The BBC has always been anti Tory and heaven know the Conservatives don't have many principles or believe in anything at all really other than power but even the little bit of commonsense and pro capitalist tendency they do possess is hated and feared by the BBC and this antipathy goes back half a century.In the early 60's Evelyn Waugh in the famous Face To Face Series made refernce to the institution's Left wing bias so this problem goes back a very long way and is really insoluble.Tebbit tried to get it in line in the 80's but failed dismally.Now there is perhaps real opportunity to give this Marxist organization the kicking of its life and purge it of it's Leftist culture.