Our Cultural Elite Rejects Middle-Class Values and Censors Debate On Such Vital Issues As Family Breakdown and Mass Immigration

Daily MailJuly 23, 2009

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THE BBC maintains the absurd myth that it is always politically neutral, but occasionally one of its senior employees writes or says something that lets the cat out of the bag.

In an article earlier this week in the BBC's in-house journal, otherwise known as The Guardian, the Corporation's controller of drama commissioning, Ben Stephenson, wrote: 'We need to foster peculiarity, idiosyncrasy, stubborn-mindedness, left-ofcentre thinking.' Left-of-centre thinking! Are you shocked? Even surprised? I confess I am not. Despite ritual denials, I had assumed that the minds behind the BBC's somewhat depleted drama output were sympathetic to Left-wing ideas rather than Right-wing ones. In a similar way, many of the people who run BBC news or current affairs programmes evidently have Left-wing leanings.

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Our Cultural Elite Rejects Middle-Class Values and Censors Debate On Such Vital Issues As Family Breakdown and Mass Immigration

Stranglehold Imagine that you were a brilliant young playwright who had conceived a play about the destructive psychological effects which abortion can have on women. Mr Stephenson or his sidekicks would not clap you on the back. You would be shown the door, if you had ever been let through it.

The Right-wing authors who have ...

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