Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee: BBC's royalist rhetoric rings false for millions – Joyce McMillan

Jubilee Day in London; and as I write, the BBC in full ecstatic mode is broadcasting pictures of Kirsty Young sitting in glorious sunshine on a giant Union Jack in St James’s Park, interviewing national treasures Dame Penelope Keith and Sir Michael Palin about their encounters with the Queen, whose remarkable 70 years on the throne all the crowds thronging the Mall are gathered to celebrate.

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