Laurence Fox is not a fan of the BBC. Last week, on the very same day that Fox appeared on Question Time, a YouTube video was uploaded featuring the actor in conversation with fellow right-winger James Delingpole. The two men agreed that the BBC was telling people how to think. “I don’t want my own children being shovelled with rubbish,” said Fox about the broadcaster, on which he would appear later that day. “I would never choose to be indoctrinated.” Fox’s criticism was oxymoronic. Indoctrination describes the involuntary adoption of beliefs – choice specifically does not come into it. And...
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