When did the Left become the shambling clown-car that it now is - I would put it around 1980, but there were plenty of signs of it before then.

Wear the badge with pride

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

That they spend money on an 80 odd year old pensioner in a wheelchair - in fact she gets a whole series - is about as much good use of money as topping up Huw Edward's pay as you go phone. Imagine the viewing figures. Here is the blurb for the series:
Watch Miriam struggle to get around whilst throwing out expletives about Tories and the UK and explaining how she never knew how hard it was for - insert favourite victims here -. A must watch for all wannabe BBC employees.

Red and Blue Army!

Erasing their uncomfortable past.

I think they may have done the same with Jim'll Fix it and certain episodes of Top of the Pops.
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"The BBC has begun to remove Huw Edwards from some of its archive footage after the former broadcaster pleaded guilty to making indecent images of children."

A bit like the Rolf Harris portrait of Her Maj, it won't be destroyed, just not available to the public. Deleting establishment (BBC) fck-ups sits uncomfortably with me. Will they be deleting footage of Prince Andrew, etc, ?

Winston works in the Records Department in the Ministry of Truth, where his job is to rewrite history according to Party need.

I disengage, I turn the page.

This will teach him

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So will this.

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