Torquemada returns?
admin on Feb 7th 2009
It is 1478 somewhere in Spain. The heretic is suffering on the rack surrounded by the priests of the Inquisition. “Repent”, they all scream. The heretic is obdurate. “I have done nothing wrong”, she cries. “Yes you have”, the priests shout as one, “Everybody has! Repent and save yourself!”
But it is not 1478, it is 2009, an era too sophisticated for superstition and religious persecution; the heretic is Carol Thatcher and the priests are from the church of BBC management.
And now, along the corridors of the BBC, there drifts the odour of seared heretic flesh mixed with the sweet scent of self-righteousness.
Heaven, if there is one, help us.
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