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Broadband, ‘big tech’ and the BBC’s consistent bias
Anti-Labour pundits on TV aren’t who the BBC say they are — or fails to say they are, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES

WHEN the TV news wants a “talking head” on Labour’s proposals to nationalise broadband and provide it freely, they turn to two organisations: the Conservative Party and to TechUK.
Everybody can figure out what the Conservative Party is — it is led by the big guy with the blond hair who says bad things sprinkled with big words that often don’t make his message any clearer.
So we can take our choice. We can think that Johnson’s verbosity means he is very clever. We can accept the Tories’ view that a free-to-use nationalised communications system is “broadband communism.”
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