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Britain Today.
Rod Liddle writes;
'.... For many years, I have railed against our left-wing establishment, only to be informed by liberal colleagues that it cannot be a left-wing establishment because we have a Conservative government. That was always a fantastically fatuous observation: we have had a left-wing establishment for a good 40 years and it shows no signs of being winnowed away. You can vote whatever way you want to, but you’ll still be left with the patronising and progressive BBC, advertisers who think we all live in mixed-race families and adore rap music, corporations desperate to pretend they are right-on, a judiciary which feels more sorry for the perpetrator than the victim (unless the perpetrator is right-wing), a bone-headed teaching establishment which embraces critical race theory and a post-rational approach to biological sex, monocultural (i.e. left-wing) universities, and arts trusts and foundations which loathe everything about our country, especially the culture of the white folk who live in it.'
Would you agree ?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Nope. A ridiculously skewed perspective. So apart from the BBC, commercial media, the judiciary, the education system and the arts, what's his problem? The answer is probably "And everything else."
A former BBC man, Liddle's job - in the media he obviously despises - is to be a polemicist. And that's why he justifies himself with this guff. Writing something a little more nuanced would be anathema to him.
//He beat up his heavily pregnant wife.//
Well girlfriend at the time, and it was said to be a punch rather than a beating-up, but it's still awful if true- although he denied it after being cautioned and they did go on to get married.
I thinks there;s some truth in what he says - for example the preponderance of mixed race families in adverts - but he has exaggerated far too much regarding teachers for example
Liddle is probably still a bit vexed at being roundly beaten by Labour when he stood as a candidate at the General election.
Despite being a high profile media darling with a Sun column and Spectator mutterings, the voters of Middlesborough didn't lend him their votes, he got less than 4%, a poor 4th.