Fascinating Video. Thanks, Neo. I have been to Salisbury Cathedral, wonderful. It houses one of the original Magna Carta.
When I want to be absolutely sure my reference for building is correct I bring out the plumb bob; no batteries, no bubble, gravity.
Tom Hanks has really stepped in it with his defense of the character playing the role of Helen of Troy in the Odyssey. He blames criticism of the role on ignorant, racist MAGA supporters. He goes on to say that as a Greek citizen he is repulsed by the reactions of Ignorant MAGA supporters and that he stands for the Greek citizens and the people of Greece that are offended by criticism of the actress playing Helen of Troy’s role. He goes on to state that as a citizen of Greece it is his duty to call out the lies directed at the movie and that Greek citizens are not offended by this depiction of Helen of Troy and they are, in fact, celebrating this depiction.
First of all, Tom Hanks is as Greek as is Robert DiNero. Secondly, the criticism coming from Greeks has nothing to do with racist MAGA supporters. One would be hard pressed to find more than a dozen MAGA supporters in all of GREECE. A small history lesson is in order. When Tito emerged as leader of the country of Yugoslavia he laid claim to the Greek territory of Macedonia including Greece’s second city, Thessaloniki, as the rightful part of the Yugoslav territory of Macedonia. The Slavic Macedonians were the true inheritors of Alexander the Great’s kingdom of Macedonia, he claimed. The inhabitants of ancient Athens were not Greek at all but were descendants of African tribes. Some years ago, when visiting an archeological site in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the docent of the site, a professor of history at the local university explained to me that Socrates was not Greek at all but a black African. The true Greeks he stated were the Slavic Macedonians.
This false belief about the true originators of Greek civilization is an extremely sensitive issue for modern day Greeks. It came to the forefront during the recent naming of the former Yugoslave republic of Macedonia. The Greek government was very much opposed to the former Yugoslav republic to take the name Macedonia as it gave false legitimacy to the claim of Slavic Macedonia to areas of the Greek province of Macedonia.
The portrayal of Helen of Troy as a black woman reinforces the false claim that the Slavic Macedonians are the true inheritors of the classical Greek civilization and that the Athens of Plato and Aristotle were descendants of African tribes. As a citizen of Greece, Tom Hanks should be well aware of the sensitivity of this around Greek National identity. He will soon find out that the huge outrage among Greeks that is coming when more is known about this film will put him into very hot water. He will be lucky if his Greek citizenship is not rescinded.
Oh, you must mean the great Greek comic actor, Thomás Hanksopolous…
What arrogance! What hubris! What gumption!
(Probably thinks he’s one of the 300…)
Whatever, he’ll find out soon enough about Nemesis, coming swiftly down the pike…but it’s all Slavic Macedonian to me…
How Tito figured African tribes got to ancient Greece, ran the place, and then departed, all without being noticed by the locals, might be interesting.
I think Communist leaders actively cultivate a certain nuttiness. An aura of eccentricity.
Keeps the enemy off balance (or terrified)—the enemy in this case being the citizenry and his underlings—as well as the foreign antagonist du jour (pace Orwell).
Or maybe they feel doing so makes them more “ interesting”.
Or maybe they’re genuinely cerifiable…
You are probably aware of the large “Unite the Kingdom” rally, led by Tommy Robinson, which took place a couple of days ago in England, this in response to the worsening situation, even say the increasingly dire situation–faced by native Englishmen in their own country.
What you may not be aware of are the views of Dr. David Betz, Professor of War in the Modern World in the Department of War Studies at King’s College, London, who says–and pretty persuasively argues–that all of the elements necessary for the eruption of a Civil War are present in the UK and, as well, in many other countries in Europe, and that such a Civil War will erupt in one of these countries in the near future and, then, pretty inevitably, spread to the others.
His best guess is that the first country where these factors will likely ignite a Civil War is in Ireland.*
Huck Fanks and the horse’s ass he has become. The former actor had a positive image, persona. No longer, OMB claims another.
Except that he stood up to Stalin…and survived.
(And before that, Hitler.)
But yes, he was a communist dictator with all that that entails.
Related to SoP @2:11 pm is this tour de force, balancing open-eyed, trenchant analysis with a dash of hope.
That is, to fix a problem it must first be named.
“The Covenant and the Wooden Box;
“The betrayal of Britain’s Jews and the corruption of its ruling class”-/ https://tinyurl.com/y9p8jz59
Re Tom Hanks and his stupid pronouncements: Good grief, shades of wholly discredited “Black Athena” fabulism. The Greeks, from the Bronze Age on, spoke an Indo-European language, the so-called Linear B tongue that evolved into Greek — Archaic, Classical, and modern. It is generally accepted that ancient Greeks, being as they were IE speakers, entered the Balkan peninsula from the north, having migrated into the region around 2,000 BC as part of the great Völkerwanderungen of Indo-European speaking peoples surging out of the IE homeland in (probably) West-Central Asia. Robert Drews writes authoritatively on this subject in several of his works.The ancient Greeks, Bronze Age Greeks in particular were white, very much so — “Caucasian” if you will — and many had blond or red hair; e.g., Agamemnon and Menelaus, the so-called Atreides Brothers were, according to Homer, gingers; and Achilleus was, in the Homeric tradition, understood to be blond. The Olympian goddesses, Hera and Athena, are repeatedly characterized as having white arms and shoulders — Homer is very firm on this; Athena, among other Greek divinities, had grey eyes. The people who settled Macedonia were also, basically, Greek — the country cousins, bumpkins and hillbillies, of the Achaeans/Danaans/Argives. Modern Greeks acquired their present-day darker complexions and hair from the Turks who occupied the Balkan region for several centuries and interbred prolifically with the natives. Never ever, if you know what’s good for you, say this to a Greek. However, if you travel to the islands, as I have (frequently), you will find still find plenty of fair- and red-haired blue-eyed Greeks.
Helen of Troy was a Spartan/Indo-European princess. Casting Diane Kruger as Helen in “Troy” was spot on; so too was a blond Brad Pitt cast as Achilleus. Having Helen portrayed by a black actress is wholly unacceptable and offensive. I might feel better about it all if blond Scandinavians and ginger-hair Celts are cast as Zulu warriors — including Shaka Zulu himself — in the next movie about the Zulu Wars. But I probably wouldn’t.
Tom Hanks and his wife are besties with the Obamas; the four have vacationed together. That explains a lot, I reckon.
“Tito might have been the model for the dictator in bananas.”
I though Castro was the model.
A very informative video. The classic buildings of Berlin built in previous centuries were founded on wooden piles driven into the high water table of sandy waterlogged soil. The construction of the massive Potsdamer Platz renovation projects in the 1990’s after the fall of the Berlin Wall – the worlds largest marine project at the time, necessitated the construction of the building foundations and below grade elements to be done without lowering the water table in order not to expose the wooden piles of the surrounding historic structures to air. A “bathtub” of waterproof walls and base were first constructed under the water lebel and only then the groundwater in the excavation could be removed without affecting the surrounding water table. A successful undertaking of great engineering expertise.
His best guess is that the first country where these factors will likely ignite a Civil War is in Ireland.
Well, seeing as how the Irish have had plenty of experience in that department, they ought to do a bang-up job of it. Literally.
Spain’s no slouch, either…
(It could start anywhere and then, once started, spread awfully quickly.)
– – – – – – –
Did someone mention “dictator”?
“UK Censoring Reform UK Videos as Hate Speech”— https://instapundit.com/797530/
Key (if obvious) blurb:
‘“…Labour doesn’t want the British people to hear Reform UK’s case, so…they silenced it.”’
Barry Meislin
Except that he (Tito) stood up to Stalin…and survived.
(And before that, Hitler.)
But yes, he was a communist dictator with all that that entails.
In the 1950s, a family friend began the first of a series of visits to his parents’ relatives in Yugoslavia. In one visit, he found out the sad truth that relatives had hidden from him for decades. During World War II, an in-law of his father’s family had ordered the execution of two members of his mother’s family. The in-law went on to high positions in the government. It wasn’t for nothing that his US in-laws called him “Commissar.” The family friend attempted a reconciliation between the two sides. How successful it was, we don’t know. The scales were tilted by the offender being a high-up Commissar type.
If ill feelings such as the above, within a small Yugoslav republic, were simmering below the surface for decades, it is not difficult to see how this was amplified by relations between the various republics—-Serbia versus Croatia, for example.
After Tito, the deluge. Tito could keep the lid on, but the pressure exploded after his death.
There’s a good novel about a medieval builder of cathedrals, ‘A Bridge to the Sky’ by my friend Margaret Ball
@ Xylourgos, 11:34 ff:
I was curious and looked up your handle: (quote)
“-Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Ancient Greek (xulourgós), from (xúlon, “wood”) + (-ourgós, “worker”); equivalent to (xýlo …”
In English, “Carpenter”
I doubt Hanks has any idea how much damage he has done to his kind, wise, All-American image.
Let’s see the movie before we sweat the small stuff.
New post: Deconstructing Everything….links & discussion related to Brivael Le Pogam’s recent post about the malign impact of writers such as Foucault and Derrida
David Foster: See also “The Master Builder” by William Golding.
AppleBetty:
It isn’t small stuff.
Gringo:
Check out “Black Lamb, Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia,” by Rebecca West.
No word yet on the identities of the two shooters, ages 17 and 19, who shot and killed three men at a mosque in San Diego. Newsom, of course, is already out with a condemnation of “Islamophobia.” I’d like to know something about the shooters before pronouncing on their motivation.
All of Hollywood’s output is small stuff to me, I’ve hardly seen any movies made this millennium.
Kate:
I agree, 72 hour rule.
Remember Karbala.
Yes, Sennacherib, that has occurred to me. Speculating isn’t much use without evidence.
Clearly historical accuracy was viewed as an obstacle by the woke producers, director and writer(s) of this latest ‘translation’ of the Odyssey. Presenting propaganda as ‘truth’ always requires much twisting of the facts. This remake of the Odyssey is so far off the reservation that it fails to persuade even at the level of fantasy. That’s a good thing. Another expensive failure by the left.
irishotter49
Gringo:
Check out “Black Lamb, Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia,” by Rebecca West.
It’s been on my “to read” list for too long.
I imagine it would pair well with Patrick Leigh Fermor” trilogy on his travels in Europe in the 1930s–two of which I have read. (A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and the Water, The Broken Road)
Gringo
There are two versions. Thinking I had The Book some decades gto, I really enjoyed it, including its references to WW II. It’s about 400 pages.
Got it again from the local library. Turns out it was originally about a thousand pages. It kind of drags. The shorter one will do the job in a number of meanings.
Plus, it doesn’t drag.
Minnesota Somali run child care centers fraud whistle-blower speaks out! – News nation Video
My father, a NYC pediatrician, became, for professional reasons, quite close to two Croatian brothers from a small Adriatic Sea fishing village.
According to the story I was told, they fled to the US with the shirts on their back, worked very hard, bought their families over and became extremely successful, having established their own business together.
Another American story of daring, survival and success…
(On a related note, seems that immigrants from the former Yugoslavia, generally very able people, have been able to find decent jobs as superintendents in quite a few NYC apartment buildings…)
Correct w, I was a carpenter in Seattle for many years, Local 1289/131 working on many of the iconic buildings that make the skyline (and underground). So sad what has happened to Seattle after I left in 1993. That’s a subject for another post!
Looks like the San Diego shooters were a couple of American teens with weird internet connections. Stole mom’s guns and her BMW SUV.
I don’t know why Ireland would be his best guess other than it’s on a more human scale. The Irish public has been among Europe’s most otiose in their response to the efforts of the political class to turf them out.
He took Greek citizenship? Strip him of his American citizenship and tell him he’s never welcome back.
Sticking black actors into British costume dramas set in the 19th century is a narrative management ploy by the BBC. If Britain is fortunate, they’ll have a Reform UK ministry which will have among its task putting the BBC’s plant and equipment on the auction block.
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Fascinating Video. Thanks, Neo. I have been to Salisbury Cathedral, wonderful. It houses one of the original Magna Carta.
When I want to be absolutely sure my reference for building is correct I bring out the plumb bob; no batteries, no bubble, gravity.
Tom Hanks has really stepped in it with his defense of the character playing the role of Helen of Troy in the Odyssey. He blames criticism of the role on ignorant, racist MAGA supporters. He goes on to say that as a Greek citizen he is repulsed by the reactions of Ignorant MAGA supporters and that he stands for the Greek citizens and the people of Greece that are offended by criticism of the actress playing Helen of Troy’s role. He goes on to state that as a citizen of Greece it is his duty to call out the lies directed at the movie and that Greek citizens are not offended by this depiction of Helen of Troy and they are, in fact, celebrating this depiction.
First of all, Tom Hanks is as Greek as is Robert DiNero. Secondly, the criticism coming from Greeks has nothing to do with racist MAGA supporters. One would be hard pressed to find more than a dozen MAGA supporters in all of GREECE. A small history lesson is in order. When Tito emerged as leader of the country of Yugoslavia he laid claim to the Greek territory of Macedonia including Greece’s second city, Thessaloniki, as the rightful part of the Yugoslav territory of Macedonia. The Slavic Macedonians were the true inheritors of Alexander the Great’s kingdom of Macedonia, he claimed. The inhabitants of ancient Athens were not Greek at all but were descendants of African tribes. Some years ago, when visiting an archeological site in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the docent of the site, a professor of history at the local university explained to me that Socrates was not Greek at all but a black African. The true Greeks he stated were the Slavic Macedonians.
This false belief about the true originators of Greek civilization is an extremely sensitive issue for modern day Greeks. It came to the forefront during the recent naming of the former Yugoslave republic of Macedonia. The Greek government was very much opposed to the former Yugoslav republic to take the name Macedonia as it gave false legitimacy to the claim of Slavic Macedonia to areas of the Greek province of Macedonia.
The portrayal of Helen of Troy as a black woman reinforces the false claim that the Slavic Macedonians are the true inheritors of the classical Greek civilization and that the Athens of Plato and Aristotle were descendants of African tribes. As a citizen of Greece, Tom Hanks should be well aware of the sensitivity of this around Greek National identity. He will soon find out that the huge outrage among Greeks that is coming when more is known about this film will put him into very hot water. He will be lucky if his Greek citizenship is not rescinded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbjKzVFdjF0
Tom Hanks?
Oh, you must mean the great Greek comic actor, Thomás Hanksopolous…
What arrogance! What hubris! What gumption!
(Probably thinks he’s one of the 300…)
Whatever, he’ll find out soon enough about Nemesis, coming swiftly down the pike…but it’s all Slavic Macedonian to me…
How Tito figured African tribes got to ancient Greece, ran the place, and then departed, all without being noticed by the locals, might be interesting.
I think Communist leaders actively cultivate a certain nuttiness. An aura of eccentricity.
Keeps the enemy off balance (or terrified)—the enemy in this case being the citizenry and his underlings—as well as the foreign antagonist du jour (pace Orwell).
Or maybe they feel doing so makes them more “ interesting”.
Or maybe they’re genuinely cerifiable…
You are probably aware of the large “Unite the Kingdom” rally, led by Tommy Robinson, which took place a couple of days ago in England, this in response to the worsening situation, even say the increasingly dire situation–faced by native Englishmen in their own country.
What you may not be aware of are the views of Dr. David Betz, Professor of War in the Modern World in the Department of War Studies at King’s College, London, who says–and pretty persuasively argues–that all of the elements necessary for the eruption of a Civil War are present in the UK and, as well, in many other countries in Europe, and that such a Civil War will erupt in one of these countries in the near future and, then, pretty inevitably, spread to the others.
His best guess is that the first country where these factors will likely ignite a Civil War is in Ireland.*
• See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfuts_8VyXE
Even forrest gump would not say something as patently ridiculous
Why cant they go classical instead of this jarring post modern farrago
Yes kate it is insulting to any self respecting greek to invert reality
Tito might havd been the model for the dictator in bananas
The arguments are pretty ridiculous against him
https://x.com/brivael/status/2056427933082771605
But they persist in a fog of delusion
Huck Fanks and the horse’s ass he has become. The former actor had a positive image, persona. No longer, OMB claims another.
Except that he stood up to Stalin…and survived.
(And before that, Hitler.)
But yes, he was a communist dictator with all that that entails.
Related to SoP @2:11 pm is this tour de force, balancing open-eyed, trenchant analysis with a dash of hope.
That is, to fix a problem it must first be named.
“The Covenant and the Wooden Box;
“The betrayal of Britain’s Jews and the corruption of its ruling class”-/
https://tinyurl.com/y9p8jz59
Re Tom Hanks and his stupid pronouncements: Good grief, shades of wholly discredited “Black Athena” fabulism. The Greeks, from the Bronze Age on, spoke an Indo-European language, the so-called Linear B tongue that evolved into Greek — Archaic, Classical, and modern. It is generally accepted that ancient Greeks, being as they were IE speakers, entered the Balkan peninsula from the north, having migrated into the region around 2,000 BC as part of the great Völkerwanderungen of Indo-European speaking peoples surging out of the IE homeland in (probably) West-Central Asia. Robert Drews writes authoritatively on this subject in several of his works.The ancient Greeks, Bronze Age Greeks in particular were white, very much so — “Caucasian” if you will — and many had blond or red hair; e.g., Agamemnon and Menelaus, the so-called Atreides Brothers were, according to Homer, gingers; and Achilleus was, in the Homeric tradition, understood to be blond. The Olympian goddesses, Hera and Athena, are repeatedly characterized as having white arms and shoulders — Homer is very firm on this; Athena, among other Greek divinities, had grey eyes. The people who settled Macedonia were also, basically, Greek — the country cousins, bumpkins and hillbillies, of the Achaeans/Danaans/Argives. Modern Greeks acquired their present-day darker complexions and hair from the Turks who occupied the Balkan region for several centuries and interbred prolifically with the natives. Never ever, if you know what’s good for you, say this to a Greek. However, if you travel to the islands, as I have (frequently), you will find still find plenty of fair- and red-haired blue-eyed Greeks.
Helen of Troy was a Spartan/Indo-European princess. Casting Diane Kruger as Helen in “Troy” was spot on; so too was a blond Brad Pitt cast as Achilleus. Having Helen portrayed by a black actress is wholly unacceptable and offensive. I might feel better about it all if blond Scandinavians and ginger-hair Celts are cast as Zulu warriors — including Shaka Zulu himself — in the next movie about the Zulu Wars. But I probably wouldn’t.
Tom Hanks and his wife are besties with the Obamas; the four have vacationed together. That explains a lot, I reckon.
“Tito might have been the model for the dictator in bananas.”
I though Castro was the model.
A very informative video. The classic buildings of Berlin built in previous centuries were founded on wooden piles driven into the high water table of sandy waterlogged soil. The construction of the massive Potsdamer Platz renovation projects in the 1990’s after the fall of the Berlin Wall – the worlds largest marine project at the time, necessitated the construction of the building foundations and below grade elements to be done without lowering the water table in order not to expose the wooden piles of the surrounding historic structures to air. A “bathtub” of waterproof walls and base were first constructed under the water lebel and only then the groundwater in the excavation could be removed without affecting the surrounding water table. A successful undertaking of great engineering expertise.
His best guess is that the first country where these factors will likely ignite a Civil War is in Ireland.
Well, seeing as how the Irish have had plenty of experience in that department, they ought to do a bang-up job of it. Literally.
Spain’s no slouch, either…
(It could start anywhere and then, once started, spread awfully quickly.)
– – – – – – –
Did someone mention “dictator”?
“UK Censoring Reform UK Videos as Hate Speech”—
https://instapundit.com/797530/
Key (if obvious) blurb:
‘“…Labour doesn’t want the British people to hear Reform UK’s case, so…they silenced it.”’
Barry Meislin
In the 1950s, a family friend began the first of a series of visits to his parents’ relatives in Yugoslavia. In one visit, he found out the sad truth that relatives had hidden from him for decades. During World War II, an in-law of his father’s family had ordered the execution of two members of his mother’s family. The in-law went on to high positions in the government. It wasn’t for nothing that his US in-laws called him “Commissar.” The family friend attempted a reconciliation between the two sides. How successful it was, we don’t know. The scales were tilted by the offender being a high-up Commissar type.
If ill feelings such as the above, within a small Yugoslav republic, were simmering below the surface for decades, it is not difficult to see how this was amplified by relations between the various republics—-Serbia versus Croatia, for example.
After Tito, the deluge. Tito could keep the lid on, but the pressure exploded after his death.
There’s a good novel about a medieval builder of cathedrals, ‘A Bridge to the Sky’ by my friend Margaret Ball
@ Xylourgos, 11:34 ff:
I was curious and looked up your handle: (quote)
“-Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Ancient Greek (xulourgós), from (xúlon, “wood”) + (-ourgós, “worker”); equivalent to (xýlo …”
In English, “Carpenter”
I doubt Hanks has any idea how much damage he has done to his kind, wise, All-American image.
He hates us! He really hates us!
That’s OK, Tom. We’re on to you.
Here’s the trailers website for The Odyssey
https://www.odysseymovie.com/videos/
Let’s see the movie before we sweat the small stuff.
New post: Deconstructing Everything….links & discussion related to Brivael Le Pogam’s recent post about the malign impact of writers such as Foucault and Derrida
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/76767.html
David Foster: See also “The Master Builder” by William Golding.
AppleBetty:
It isn’t small stuff.
Gringo:
Check out “Black Lamb, Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia,” by Rebecca West.
No word yet on the identities of the two shooters, ages 17 and 19, who shot and killed three men at a mosque in San Diego. Newsom, of course, is already out with a condemnation of “Islamophobia.” I’d like to know something about the shooters before pronouncing on their motivation.
All of Hollywood’s output is small stuff to me, I’ve hardly seen any movies made this millennium.
Kate:
I agree, 72 hour rule.
Remember Karbala.
Yes, Sennacherib, that has occurred to me. Speculating isn’t much use without evidence.
Clearly historical accuracy was viewed as an obstacle by the woke producers, director and writer(s) of this latest ‘translation’ of the Odyssey. Presenting propaganda as ‘truth’ always requires much twisting of the facts. This remake of the Odyssey is so far off the reservation that it fails to persuade even at the level of fantasy. That’s a good thing. Another expensive failure by the left.
irishotter49
It’s been on my “to read” list for too long.
I imagine it would pair well with Patrick Leigh Fermor” trilogy on his travels in Europe in the 1930s–two of which I have read. (A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and the Water, The Broken Road)
Gringo
There are two versions. Thinking I had The Book some decades gto, I really enjoyed it, including its references to WW II. It’s about 400 pages.
Got it again from the local library. Turns out it was originally about a thousand pages. It kind of drags. The shorter one will do the job in a number of meanings.
Plus, it doesn’t drag.
Minnesota Somali run child care centers fraud whistle-blower speaks out! – News nation Video
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2026/05/minnesota-somali-run-child-care-centers.html
From “Deconstructing Everything” to…
“The Politicization Of Everything”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/politicization-everything
And “there’s the rub….”
Gringo, that’s quite a story.
My father, a NYC pediatrician, became, for professional reasons, quite close to two Croatian brothers from a small Adriatic Sea fishing village.
According to the story I was told, they fled to the US with the shirts on their back, worked very hard, bought their families over and became extremely successful, having established their own business together.
Another American story of daring, survival and success…
(On a related note, seems that immigrants from the former Yugoslavia, generally very able people, have been able to find decent jobs as superintendents in quite a few NYC apartment buildings…)
Hmm. The Bermuda angle…
“Forget the Bermuda Triangle — Bermuda itself is the mystery.”—
https://instapundit.com/797415/
Correct w, I was a carpenter in Seattle for many years, Local 1289/131 working on many of the iconic buildings that make the skyline (and underground). So sad what has happened to Seattle after I left in 1993. That’s a subject for another post!
Looks like the San Diego shooters were a couple of American teens with weird internet connections. Stole mom’s guns and her BMW SUV.
Barry Meislin…that is a worthwhile link
See also my post Life in the Fully Politicized Society
https://substack.com/home/post/p-194570484
I don’t know why Ireland would be his best guess other than it’s on a more human scale. The Irish public has been among Europe’s most otiose in their response to the efforts of the political class to turf them out.
He took Greek citizenship? Strip him of his American citizenship and tell him he’s never welcome back.
Sticking black actors into British costume dramas set in the 19th century is a narrative management ploy by the BBC. If Britain is fortunate, they’ll have a Reform UK ministry which will have among its task putting the BBC’s plant and equipment on the auction block.