Putting aside my consternation that the spectator is capable of serious discussion (it recently published an article in defence of Greek neo-nazis), the fiction

Putting aside my consternation that the spectator is capable of serious discussion (it recently published an article in defence of Greek neo-nazis), the fiction that until recently only the BBC could pull off "huge landmark period dramas" is simply propaganda put about by media barons wrestling with raging hard ons for Ayn Rand in their Riviera villas (eg Brideshead Revisited - ITV 1981).