This morning I'm listening to the BBC news and propaganda programme. They're talking about the crisis in accident and emergency departments in hospitals. A senior nurse from the Royal College of Nursing is telling horror stories about staff shortages and intolerable pressure.
How long has it been like this? asks the interviewer. The gist is that things started to get bad ten years ago (Labour administration), have got dramatically worse in the last two years (Conservative-Liberal administration).
Next on, a government health minister, somebody named Poulter. He'd obviously demanded to be interviewed after the nurse was no longer in a position to pull him up. "You've just heard that things have got better in the past ten years." was his opening line.
I switched over to a music programme.