Evan Davis clearly has a great sense of humour. You can tell because on his Twitter profile it states: ‘These are only my views — the BBC has no views.’ Yeah, nice one, Evan. Very pert. Very dry.
In fact, of course, the BBC has a view on everything. Israelis? The Nazis taught them everything they know. Palestinians? The human equivalent of those darling little kittens with different-coloured eyes who tumble out of wicker baskets on charming calendars. Man Made Global Warming? A bigger threat than the Black Death, the 1918/19 Flu Pandemic, second world war, Ebola and Armageddon combined. Bankers? Like the SS Das Reich at Oradour, only without their milk of human kindness. Conservatives? Ditto. Businessmen? Like a sort of cross between Nosferatu, Dracula, and the Master from Salem’s Lot but with much longer, more vicious fangs, a greater capacity for blood and a tendency to prey on really sweet blond children while they’re at prayer.
It’s the BBC’s position on business, capitalism generally, which had me so puzzled by Davis’s three-part series Made in Britain.
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