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Here is Establishment journalist Libby Purves in Establishment newspaper @thetimes embellishing a lie repeated by the Guardian and originating in a book by Peter York and Patrick Barwise. They have all dishonestly represented my original review, as you'll see... https://twitter.com/No2BS/status/1337806288793825281
'...Even more distracting than the gratuitous sex, mind you, was the diversity casting. The whole exercise was like an extended United Colours of Benetton advert, with black female snipers, an Indian/Pakistani SWAT team head, an oriental bomb disposal expert, etc...'
If you sincerely believe — as the BBC demonstrably does — that the primary function of contemporary TV drama is to act as a make-work scheme for BAME actors then this is admirable....
But from the point of view of most viewers it is distracting, insulting and discomfiting — for it forces you into noticing something you’d rather not be forced to notice.
Worse still than the diversity stuff, though, is the relentless equality agenda. Many of us are old enough to remember ‘The Worm That Turned’, the brilliant Two Ronnies mini-serial about a dystopian future in which the world was ruled by bossy, humourless women.
Well, just under 40 years on that world has arrived, only without the consolation of street patrols by blonde hotties in skimpy leather stormtrooper outfits.
In BBC dramas now, it is absolutely de rigueur for anyone in any position of authority, including most of the police force, to be a strong, capable, confident woman.
That includes, in this case, the female Muslim suicide bomber who — to allay any concerns that this might be racist stereotyping — was indulged with a little speech at the end announcing...
how proud and omnicompetent she was, not some male jihadist’s stooge, but an independent trained engineer with a mind of her own.
I wonder, do BBC writers like Jed Mercurio feel any twinges of artistic self-disgust as they churn out this Social Justice Warrior propaganda?
Isn’t it a bit like being a composer under Stalin, knowing you’re free to write whatever music you want, so long as it’s revolutionary, anti-bourgeois and celebrates the struggles and triumphs of the proletariat?
Do they never worry at all what the audience might think?END QUOTE
As you'll see, Libby Purves's claims about my article are mendacious. She accuses me of saying things I didn't say.
The Guardian article is similarly misleading and dishonest:
In 2018,James Delingpole derided the Bodyguard as “Social Justice Warrior propaganda” for casting people who aren’t white men in positions of authority, even as, the authors note, Britain had a female prime minister, and a Muslim home secretary and mayor of London.
But the Guardian writer, Dorian Lynskey, was just ripping off this tripe from an unreadable-sounding book The War Against the BBC: How an Unprecedented Combination of Hostile Forces Is Destroying Britain’s Greatest Cultural Institution ... And Why You Should Care
Co-author Peter York co-wrote The Sloane Rangers Handbook in the 1980s. Now he's writing tripe claiming that the unwatchably Woke BBC is worth preserving.
And people wonder why I've had it with the mainstream media. It's corrupt, mendacious, written by brainless pillocks on board with the SJW agenda. No wonder we're in such a mess.
