tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post7231443583207287086..comments2024-03-28T22:32:50.562+00:00Comments on Liberal England: Andrew Marr disappoints trivia fansJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-69928232233526907252007-05-30T21:52:00.000+01:002007-05-30T21:52:00.000+01:00Michael White has a good review on the Guardian si...<A HREF="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/michael_white/2007/05/modern_britain_slightly_marred.html" REL="nofollow">Michael White</A> has a good review on the <EM>Guardian</EM> site.Jonathan Calderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-24748363915725769272007-05-30T21:25:00.000+01:002007-05-30T21:25:00.000+01:00Yes. It was a two-pronged attack!Yes. It was a two-pronged attack!Liberal Polemichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05002372579024659424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-41560284908429191802007-05-30T10:02:00.000+01:002007-05-30T10:02:00.000+01:00Surely, no-one can have missed the pointed paralle...Surely, no-one can have missed the pointed parallels with the Blair government. This was an attack on our current government through the mirror of history.<BR/><BR/>Small point: Sir Alec D-H was standing behind Eden as he left.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03281231409865527752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-84683639138685314522007-05-29T23:55:00.000+01:002007-05-29T23:55:00.000+01:00His trivia was rather worse than that. He made two...His trivia was rather worse than that. He made two factual inaccuracies, too:<BR/><BR/>1) The Suez lie was not cooked up in Downing Street, as he claimed, but in France.<BR/><BR/>2) Eden did not see Nasser as a new Hitler, but as a new Mussolini.<BR/><BR/>The rest of the programme was a biased attack on Conservative government. Not that I feel any great need to defend the Tories, but it stands out in such contrast to the positive gloss he painted last week over the Atlee government.<BR/><BR/>Andrew Marr's series is what the BBC does best: promote socialism behind a veneer of neutrality.Liberal Polemichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05002372579024659424noreply@blogger.com