Question Time last night was followed by This Week.
It was an interesting programme, although the most interesting (probably) part - Mehdi Hasan's report on the 2011 Census - was nixed due to a power cut (of course, it goes without saying that multiculturalism has failed).
In the rest of This Week Andrew Neil referred to Independent journalist Owen Jones as "hard left", which must have provoked guffaws of laughter among the ultra-left guardians of ideological purity.
The Owen Jones report purported to have been filmed at his flat in London, although we were shown an apartment of such stupendous untidiness that it is doubtful it actually exists outside the temporary confections of the BBC props department. The prevalence of 1970s brown throughout chez Jones also pointed to the fact that this interior was constructed to illustrate an affinity with the lifestyle choices of Arthur Scargill (now a fashion icon according to Newsnight). However it was the shelves of books that most caught my eye.
Books do furnish a room as X Trapnel once advised.
I have tried enlarging screen shots of the bookshelves but cannot make out any of the titles except for the Owen Jones opus magnum Chavs, which appeared in both of the bookshelves we were shown.
Was this the same book, moved about? (surely the BBC would not attempt product placement, especially not after Andy Burnham's statement on 11th March 2009).
Or are we supposed to believe that in the households of the hard left the Jones sociological treatise is constantly on hand for reference (in the same way as in the homes of the devout the Bible is constantly near, although in the homes of the very devout the Bible is known by heart).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01pdy1k/This_Week_13_12_2012/
It was an interesting programme, although the most interesting (probably) part - Mehdi Hasan's report on the 2011 Census - was nixed due to a power cut (of course, it goes without saying that multiculturalism has failed).
In the rest of This Week Andrew Neil referred to Independent journalist Owen Jones as "hard left", which must have provoked guffaws of laughter among the ultra-left guardians of ideological purity.
The Owen Jones report purported to have been filmed at his flat in London, although we were shown an apartment of such stupendous untidiness that it is doubtful it actually exists outside the temporary confections of the BBC props department. The prevalence of 1970s brown throughout chez Jones also pointed to the fact that this interior was constructed to illustrate an affinity with the lifestyle choices of Arthur Scargill (now a fashion icon according to Newsnight). However it was the shelves of books that most caught my eye.
Books do furnish a room as X Trapnel once advised.
I have tried enlarging screen shots of the bookshelves but cannot make out any of the titles except for the Owen Jones opus magnum Chavs, which appeared in both of the bookshelves we were shown.
Was this the same book, moved about? (surely the BBC would not attempt product placement, especially not after Andy Burnham's statement on 11th March 2009).
Or are we supposed to believe that in the households of the hard left the Jones sociological treatise is constantly on hand for reference (in the same way as in the homes of the devout the Bible is constantly near, although in the homes of the very devout the Bible is known by heart).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01pdy1k/This_Week_13_12_2012/
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