I was very impressed with Rutger Bregman’s Reith Lectures entitled Moral Revolution.
They can be found on the BBC 4, but if you cannot get BBC in your location, I have downloaded the transcripts here.
The BBC have applied a bit of censorship to the Lecture. They have removed one line where Bregman describes Trump as “The most openly corrupt president in American history”.
I guess they do not want to be facing a lawsuit from someone with bottomless pockets.
“They deleted the sentence in which I described Donald Trump as the most openly corrupt president in American history. That line is gone.
“It has been removed from the version broadcast this morning on BBC Radio 4.
“Last Wednesday, I was told the sentence was being discussed with US lawyers and at the highest levels inside the BBC.
“For days, they couldn’t give me an answer. Yesterday they finally did, and the irony could not be bigger, because this lecture, titled A Time Of Monsters, is exactly about the cowardice of today’s elites, about universities, corporations, and yes, media networks, bending the knee to authoritarianism.
“I find it hard to express how shocked I am at the BBC’s decision.”
Rutger Bregman
