I’m sick of the BBC. It’s now a woke-left propaganda unit that promotes everything but British history and identity. The other night, for example, we had a documentary on the Mexican painter Frieda Kahlo. Now, I’ve got nothing against Kahlo; I’m sure she’s an interesting artist. If we had a documentary on her as well as lots of documentaries on the Pre-Raphaelites and Nash and Aubrey Beardsley and Stanley Spencer, and countless other British painters, I wouldn’t mind. But I can just hear the conversation at the BBC “right, time we had a documentary on a painter...ok, make a list of every painter who isn’t a white European male and we’ll go from there.”
The biggest disappointment is Radio 4. I remember tuning in once to a programme on Jane Austen. Great, I thought, the BBC is finally doing what it’s supposed to do - promoting high culture and discussing writers from the British canon. How naive! Within twenty seconds of tuning in, they got on about a minor character in one of her novels who owns a sugar plantation. They then spent the rest of the programme talking about the horrors of slavery! It has become almost laughable.
I’m also sick of the way left-wing comedians like Mark Steel and Alexi Sayle and Jeremy Hardy (when he was alive) hijack BBC shows and use them to promote hard left views.
Lots of British people of Asian or African heritage are actually proud of writers of like Jane Austen. They think of themselves as British and want to hear about writers and artists from their country. I know this because I’ve sat in coffee shops and books groups with them.