BBC Re-Heats Biased Old Bakewell Tart!
Spiked.com can be annoying at times, but, like RT, at other times quite admirable.
On occasion, it simply gives us useful information, as this past week was the case with an interview, an old bat who sits on the Labour benches in the House of Lords, whom younger readers won’t likely have heard of.
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Her name’s Joan Bakewell and as a young guy in the Sixties, I remember her as a typical smug BBC leftist.
She was a bit prettier than the run-of-the-mill red slags who trudged about on CND marches…
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…but in that halcyon era, when micro-mini-skirts were still an entrancing new development in female fashions…
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…we none of us normal ( i.e. non-BBC!) young gentlemen would ever have given Bolshie Bakewell a second – or even a third – glance.
Then some comedian – I believe it was Frank Muir – rather famously described her as ‘’the thinking man’s crumpet.”
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In other words, unlike the intellectual in-crowd Muir hung out with, those of us, indubitably the majority of men, who thought Marianne Faithfull was a MUCH tastier confectionary, were unthinking?
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What do you think?
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We discussed that insult and were even more strongly confirmed in our adamant indifference to Joanie’s superficial charms.
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However, the sad thing is that despite the passage of half a century, she seems not to have matured.Inevitably, the BBC is bringing back her bias, via a brand-new show to be called “Vive La Revolution.”
Watch it if you like – pinko pap, I’ll predict..
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Thing is, she was caught out fifty years ago, when the Broadcasting House bosses had some slight acquaintance with their charter’s duty to be an impartial outfit.

Heavens above!
Somebody at the BBC had a grasp of the concept of fairness? Somebody thought that honourable young Americans fighting for their country might merit a hearing?
Changed days. Now bias at the BBC is a way of life.
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Vanessa 17:03 on June 4, 2018 Permalink |
She was so condescending!
There were always those Oxbridge airs and graces on display ( which college did she attend, may I ask?) and she reeked of political prejudice, as if only the left had any claim to righteousness.
I used to wonder if she went down the East End of an evening to drink in working class pubs as a kind of research project.
It would be the only way her hoity-toity brand of socialist would ever get to meet the proles in whose name her (Vive La) Revolution was to be carried through.
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Chrissie Miles 22:03 on June 4, 2018 Permalink |
Vanessa, she went to Newnham, and that was a ladies-only college then, maybe no longer, but I don’t know.
Might that explain her problems?
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Seth Grierson 00:26 on June 5, 2018 Permalink |
She went to an elite women’s college
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Pamela 18:21 on June 4, 2018 Permalink |
Oh good, Ross, it’s so nice to read somebody rip into this woman. She was bad enough in the 1960s and 70s but got worse and worse in later years.
Was it her getting worse or was it the BBC taking down more and more barriers to let her show off a dirty mouth that a ton of carbolic could not have kept clean?
I’d offer chapter and verse to explain what I mean but her descent into obscenity is chronicled in her wikipedia entry.
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Ewan Langston 19:34 on June 4, 2018 Permalink |
Anyone who was a teenaged male in those days will tell you how all the girls looked fantastic in their minis. Your photographs back me up in that.
So it wasn’t only ‘Mars Bar’ Faithfull that would have overshadowed the young Bakewell Tart. She was nothing special, wouldn’t have turned a single male head in Oxford Street and even fewer in Broadcasting House where male heads tended, as often as not, then as now, to rest on each others shoulders!
I know you like to use the word “pinko” to describe leftists so I will borrow it if I may, and say Bakewell was not “the thinking man’s crumpet” but something more like the “pinko man’s strumpet, “ and if you read the lines and between the lines in that spiked interview, to do her justice, she isn’t shy about it.
She put her heart and soul in tthe role of anti-public-morality warrior because she had given up her own personal morality long since.
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Nev 04:06 on June 5, 2018 Permalink |
Just goes to show, if you are left enough, you are never too old to get work with the BBC
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