Meet The New Boss

Normally, of course, I wouldn't want anything to do with The Daily Mail, I loathe and detest its small-minded nastiness. However, via Iain Dale, I did find this:

The erstwhile young rebels who changed the BBC in the Sixties and Seventies are now the Establishment, and their views, once so radical, have become an ossified consensus - just like the ones they replaced.

However, there is a big difference: the old Establishment was undermined by media scrutiny; the new Establishment is the media. Who can debunk it?

I think this does touch upon another of the themes I'm contemplating for this blog, which is the sort of post-war consensus that grew up in parallel to the Labour party, through the universities that the liberal-left way was the only way. The BBC is - of course - stuffed to the gills with the sort of graduates who went through this who - as the article says - seemingly cannot understand that there can be any other way of looking at the world other than their own.