An invented tale to twist your mind

SOME weeks ago I warned that the BBC would soon unleash a nasty bit of propaganda posing as drama. In fact, when the enemies of our once-free and once-happy society want to twist an issue, this is their favourite method. Even the once- bland Call The Midwife has been hijacked for this purpose, oozing pro-abortion bias.

The latest bit of twisting is called Mrs America, and features Rose Byrne, left, as the 1960s American feminist Gloria Steinem, and Cate Blanchett as her opponent, Phyllis Schlafly. The best line in it is an admission by one liberationist that, whatever they claimed back then, they were against ‘housewives’, a word which has now become a term of abuse.

The much-hyped drama is, in fact, pretty lame – expensively made but startlingly dull. But it clearly sees Mrs Schlafly – a courageous lone voice who warned of the ultimate results of the sexual revolution – as its target. She was right that the campaign to get women working outside the home would end in those women doing two jobs for less than the price of one.

I do not know how many of the nasty things it suggests about her are true, though I am working on it. But I should point out the programme itself admits much of what it shows is invented. That is their word. But invented by whom and for what aim? If you can stomach this stuff at all, bear that in mind.