A sneak peek at the new BBC Election 2010 intro. This is an early edit so it might be subject to a few changes between now and the big kick off.
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Andrew Maguire is the story the BBC will not mention. Robert Peston is the BBC’s business editor and on his BBC blog Peston’s Picks he claims to offer his “take on the business stories and issues that matter.”
“Business stores and issues that matter” in this case of course refers to stories and issues that matter to Robert Peston and his fellow mainstream gatekeepers at the BBC. Anything else that might well be of critical importance to you, the general public, will never see the light of day.
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Edward Bernays 1891-1995
The report found the richest 10% of adults accounted for 85% of the world total global assets. Half the world’s adult population owned barely 1% of global wealth. (Guardian, 6 December 2006)
There has always been inequality in our societies and for many reasons, some morally arguable but others unquestionably a shameful indictment of humanity. During the time of kings and emperors and throughout the centuries since the rise of usury, more politely termed as “banking” today, great wealth has underpinned great power and so shaped the policy of nations.
But in the modern age of progressive enlightenment, which we claim as the bedrock of our “altruistic” political, economic and social systems, how can it remain acceptable that millions of people, including helpless children, starve to death as millions more watch their suffering on television whilst excusing themselves every reason to reverse their own decline into obesity?
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If you watch the 24/7 news on TV or read the usual newspapers you’ll have no trouble recognising the environment they take for granted they are operating in and we are supposedly living in. It goes like so:
- The United Kingdom is a democracy,
- That has a parliament led by Prime Minister Gordon Brown and an “opposition” led by “Dave” Cameron,
- And the office of the Prime Minister is the highest in the land,
- And the laws made in parliament are a representation of the will of the public as expressed at the ballot box.
Which makes me wonder why the old sayings, “None of them are any good!”, or, “This lot are as bad as the last lot!”, are as popular today as they have ever been.
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