I’m so glad you’ve left the shackles of “balanced reporting” behind. You have to take a position or what’s the point? I think we’re all becoming aware of how much we’ve been manipulated by a mainstream media whose primary purpose is to further the interests of the elites who own it.

The increased surveillance of all of us under the pretext of “protecting us from terrorism” is clearly nothing more than an attempt to keep track of emerging political threats to the status quo — because the elites surely feel this coming and won’t go down without a fight.

The BBC is in a dire position — genuflecting like a beaten animal towards the government in the hope that it won’t be completely destroyed. It needs to change tack and use what trust it has left among the public to attack the government directly. Challenge government policy from austerity to its calculated underfunding of the NHS and everything in between. If no government spokesman is willing to appear on TV or radio to defend policies (which happens all too often) then fill that time with opponents of those policies.

There’s deep disaffection with the status quo. It’s destroying both human and natural capital at a horrifying rate. There’s going to be a complete socio-economic re-ordering and I don’t think the transition is going to be pretty.