Fresh from claiming the British Empire was the best thing since sliced bread, Mark Smith now attacks public service broadcasting – using the ruse that he gives a toss about poor people ("It's time to make Auntie pay her way', The Herald, July 20).
Fresh from claiming the British Empire was the best thing since sliced bread, Mark Smith now attacks public service broadcasting – using the ruse that he gives a toss about poor people (\"It's time to make Auntie pay her way', The Herald, July 20).
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What is this, the neoconservative, neoliberal column? I have very mixed feelings about the BBC, nonetheless ...
What does he mean by "progressive privatisation of the 1980s"? Progressive in what sense? In the enlightened, forward-looking sense or the encroaching, expanding sense? Hilariously, I think he means the former. In case people hadn't noticed, we've had more than 30 years of fundamentalist privatisation of public services and utilities and it's destroying our country – it has manifestly failed. And Mark Smith wants more of it. If we are to have this bankrupt Thatcherite extremism in the national newspaper on a regular basis, then how about some clued-up Marxism as well?
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Privatisation of public services
Fresh from claiming the British Empire was the best thing since sliced bread, Mark Smith now attacks public service broadcasting – using the ruse that he gives a toss about poor people ("It's time to make Auntie pay her way', The Herald, July 20).
What is this, the neoconservative, neoliberal column? I have very mixed feelings about the BBC, nonetheless ...
What does he mean by "progressive privatisation of the 1980s"? Progressive in what sense? In the enlightened, forward-looking sense or the encroaching, expanding sense? Hilariously, I think he means the former. In case people hadn't noticed, we've had more than 30 years of fundamentalist privatisation of public services and utilities and it's destroying our country – it has manifestly failed. And Mark Smith wants more of it. If we are to have this bankrupt Thatcherite extremism in the national newspaper on a regular basis, then how about some clued-up Marxism as well?
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