Yes, the wrong ‘uns hate it and wish it was dead, but its news division is now captured by the right who exploit its reputation to serve themselves exclusively, to the great detriment of everyone else.

This is great, it’s a difficult phenomenon to describe articulately (I certainly can’t) but I hope more people start talking about it like this.

This is what you get after decades of rolling your eyes at right wing bullshit while waving it through, but never actually opposing it.

Regular folk might notice that we have smashed the postwar settlement trying to appease these people, laid waste to the public realm, made much of the country unlivably expensive for many people, all to try to make these cranks happy. But they’ll never be happy, as long as we exist and speak.

He had a grand old time during the wrecking years so I find his confusion less than compelling.