Anti-Thatcher bias?

[mnk]

Sometimes I’m convinced the BBC has a distinct anti-Thatcher bias. Take this extract from their recently broadcast documentary on food science, Farm to Pharma: The Rise of Food Science. Talking on camera, the young, very attractive food writer and historian Bee Wilson, who could barely have been born when Mrs Thatcher came to power, was chiding about J Lyons and their breakthrough in the Sixties introducing soft ice cream to the nation. Then working as a food scientist for the company, it seems Mrs Thatcher was deeply implicated...

“I think there’s something appropriate about Mrs Thatcher being this sort of food scientist in that it seems to represent the sort of Thatcherite sort of politics in that it’s prizing efficiency and modernity over tradition. It’s just wiping out any traditional idea that ice cream should be something that should actually taste delicious or be made from cream and eggs in the traditional way. It’s just razing that to the ground and saying, no, how can we approach ice cream from a way that’s sort of looking towards the future and is quite ruthless and is ultimately always driven by profit and the bottom line.”

So that’s how the Iron Lady did it: Today ice cream – tomorrow the world!

[Teddy Bear]

Welcome to the forum mnk, and I look forward to more of your observations.

Indeed, the fact that the BBC does have an anti-Thatcher bias has been well documented over the years, and is one that even the BBC has admitted.

There are many, including myself, who would say that the bias is more anti-Conservative, particularly towards any strong leader, of which Thatcher was the last.