From: hjkhjkhd@hhhh.com   
      
   I came in from the pub and saw a bit of 'Party Animals', the BBC's crap   
   attempt to 'do' 'This Life' in the Noughties about politics. All an excuse   
   for Auntie's sedulous propagation of Gallowayisms, Bennite parti-pris,   
   general white-male bashing and the glorification - BUT NOT OBJECTIFICATION,   
   mind - of wimmin.   
      
   There was the obligatory, dog-tired, BBC let's-stay-up-and-show-off drug   
   moment which took up valuable screen time in place of what should have been   
   going on: The clean cut young hero - Labour, earnest (having it off with an   
   female Asian tory candidate: woooh, dude, like soooo cool: they must have   
   ordered an extra bottle in Charlotte Street when they dreamed that up) is   
   talking to some public school drone and they talk about the Human Rights   
   Act -   
   which the propagandistic* script engineers to look good by having the wicked   
   tory denounce it. Anyway, the cokey drone says something cynical about the   
   torture clause of the Human Rights Act.   
      
   Tory: ...the torture clause is a bore.   
      
   Our Hero (leaning forward earnestly and militantly self-righteous): You can   
   *never* torture anyone. Ever.   
      
   Then Tory boy leans for forward and does a line. Offers one to our hero -   
   who refuses (strange, every toilet at the Labour 2005 Party Conference   
   tested positive for charlie, where's that gritteh realism, Beeb?) smugly.   
      
   Why didn't the writer then have the other guy - or one of the sassy,   
   in-charge wimmin, say: 'WOT, EVEN WHEN A NUCLEAR DIRTY-BOMB IN LONDON IS AT   
   STAKE?'   
      
   Which could have led on to an interesting scene. But no, it was more folky   
   pop music and edgy shots of romance. I blame television for bad television -   
   and everything else.   
      
   *Propaganda in the sense of crude and unsophisticated drama where all   
   subtlties are suppressed in favour of an ideological bias.   
      
   'Negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit   
   ridiculous, and genius contemptible.'   
   Samuel Johnson   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)