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Animal FarmIn a long item this morning a reporter rewrote George Orwell's classic novel Animal Farm to apply to New Labour. Anthony, Prudence, Hartlepool, Thumper and Campbell* were recast as the pigs who had led a left-wing revolution against farmer Major but ended up betraying their comrades and becoming indistinguishable from the humans they had overthrown. It was well done and made me smile, but can anyone imagine a similar BBC spoof when a right-wing government “betrays” its principles by moving left? It reminded me of innumerable “Radio 4 Today” interviews before and after the first Blair election victory. Before the election the Tories were constantly asked why they were not spending more on education, health, roads or whatever. After the election the questions to Blair and his colleagues remained the same; why are you not spending more? They have continued in this vein to this day. In one way this is fair. Humphries and Naughtie attack both parties equally fiercely. The bias is more deep seated. The line of questioning always comes from a position to the left of both major parties. Humphries and Naughtie hardly realise they are doing it, because their views are so much the conventional wisdom of the chattering classes to which most BBC reporters belong. Jim Thornton. Nottingham 7 June 2003
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