Ultra-right critics have childish views

Whenever I read people like Geoffrey Brooking (Letters, 23 September) complaining about the BBC’S alleged anti-brexit bias, or accusing Channel 4 of being ‘extreme Left-wing,’ I automatically think it reveals far more about how ultraright-wing these critics are.

They seem to think that anyone with an opinion just half-a-millimetre (oops, sorry, using a post1950s metric measurement) to the Left of Nigel Farage or Margret Thatcher is a Marxist, crypto-communist or dangerously ‘Woke.’

They polarise everything, and see the world in childishly simple black/white alternatives, with no room for shades of grey in between.

These critics would probably apply these pejorative labels to former moderate, pro-european, Conservative prime ministers like Ted Heath and John Major. Mr Brooking wants the

new Culture Secretary,

Nadine Dorries, to ‘take-on’ (silence) the BBC and privatise Channel 4, as he doesn’t approve of the political views he hears.

Odd, because we keep hearing Conservatives complain that it is the ‘fascist Left’ who are silencing free-speech and imposing ‘cancel culture.’ Why is Mr Brooking not concerned about the blatant proconservative, pro-brexit, bias of most of Britain’s national daily newspapers?

Mr Brooking apparently wants to live in a regime in which all of the media only broadcasts or publishes pro-government propaganda, and suppresses any alternative views, so could I respectfully suggest he emigrates to North Korea, Venezuela or Putin’s Russia? I’d happily travel to the airport to wave him off. Pete Dorey

Bath