"A typical piece of BBC anti-Tory propaganda."
— Norman Tebbit

January 1, 1970

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Members of the Parliament of the United KingdomAgnosticsColumnists from EnglandGovernment ministersConservative Party (UK) politicians
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From an article published in a 1985 edition of the Monday Club magazine 'Right Ahead' which was heavily critical of the BBC and of what Tebbit regarded as the corporation's left-wing bias. Tebbit was referring to an episode of the popular BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who entitled 'Pyramids of Mars' which he had recently seen - he perceived a "wasteland version of 1980" featured in the episode to be a symbolic, allegorical and propagandistic attack on the Thatcher government. Tebbit was appa