David Bowden - arsehole for today

I've been dropping the main employers of lefty arseholes from my blog-list; but I still read Spiked, mainly for the editor's input, so am exposed to the intellectual stool of baby-faced David Bowden, as in his infantile review of the Bitchy Boys' The Accused series.

Thus Bowden's response to a protest against the grotesque parody written by a "Gritty Left-Wing Dramatist™" (hee, hee - jolly jape) called McGovern from the intelligent and humane retired Colonel Tim Collins is: "Well, you can stick your mark of Cain up your arse, Colonel Tim Collins".

Unlike Collins and Dannatt, McGovern at least proved himself to be militant about what he does for a living: writing good, intelligent TV drama rather than viewing it as a form of dumbed-down prole theatre or as a stepping stone to the movies.

WTF does that mean? Did Collins and Dannatt not prove themselves to be "militant" by putting their lives on the line and by leading men into battle? And what the hell is wrong with "dumbed-down prole theatre"? Does Bowden think it shows some kind of intellectual superiority to take people's money - by force - and then give them programming they won't watch? Of course I know that's what the Bitchy Boys think, but baby cheeks is supposed to be a TV critic, not an entrant for the Bitchy Boys' suck a golf-ball down a hosepipe contest.  

What the hell British troops are fighting for in Afghanistan remains unclear [not if you know how to read - see here, for example], but we should all be thankful that we don’t live in a world where the army can dictate what gets shown on TV.

But we do live in a world where the security apparat dictates what gets shown on TV: in all Muslim countries and most of non-Muslim Africa, in Cambodia, in China, in Cuba, in North Korea, in Venezuela, in Vietnam - you know? All those people's republics that "Gritty Left-Wing Dramatists" and their Bitchy Boy paymasters have been so careful never to criticise over many decades.