People ask me what I do in my downtime (Ed. they don't) and one thing I looked forward to was 'A Point of View' on BBC radio on a Sunday morning... sardonic but trenchant views of the likes of Will Self among the highlights. After decades, the programme was pulled, most likely because it required self-examination and jarred with the media belief that no view is better than any other: the internet affording a platform to the village idiot whom previously was ignored.
Accordingly Adam Curtis' documentaries on the decline and moral degeneration of the UK is only available to stream from the BBC ~ for much the same reasons viz. no-one wants to dwell on a ship of state sinking. A continuing highlight of our global contribution is entertainment, but largely in the way the orchestra continued playing as the Titanic went down.
The above is a screen-shot from the latest doc in the series, 'Shifty', which focuses to a great extent upon Margaret Thatcher's revolution that never was. Steve Coogan recently played Brian Walden who interviewed the PM frequently, and suggests that nowadays she would likely be diagnosed with a mental pathology. I've travelled the places Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin and Hitler pursued their agendas and there is an element of similarity in that each of them pursued policies irrespective of the consequences.
Key in each case is that we prefer not to have to think, which is why so many of us (though not so much in the UK nowadays) go to work: it saves having to question what we do and affords us leisure to complain about things in general: accordingly we're a sucker for anyone who appears to have all of the answers.
(Ed. yeah, and he streamed it from the sofa in his underwear with a four-pack).
