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Left-wingers like to claim that the BBC presenter Nick Robinson is proof that the Corporation is really Right-wing. Mr Robinson was once a Young Conservative, a phrase which rings as odd to me as ‘thin pig’ or ‘quiet rock concert’. Well, Mr Robinson may have been such a thing once. But he now fits in beautifully with the BBC, The Guardian and the rest of the cultural Left. The other morning, discussing Kate Winslet’s amazing performance in the TV series Mare Of Easttown, he called her an ‘actor’ rather than an ‘actress’ and referred to her as ‘Winslet’, unadorned, a style once kept only for convicted criminals. Just like The Guardian.