Matthew, I would not disagree with you.
If you look back a little, my comment about Tories at the Beeb was a response to a post from Joe Hutch. (# 669.)
I met his attempt at humour, with my (quite possibly equally poor....) attempt at humour.
Tony for whatever reason decided to infer from my words a whole scenario of thought and motivation far beyond what could reasonably be inferred from my words.
I did not accuse anyone of bias. But those I mention are Tories now
Not quite the same thing but I'm rather reminded of when I went into the decidedly left wing Grass Roots Books in Manchester during my studies. I was trying to source a copy of the classic work 'Political Parties', by Robert Michels. The sales person in Grass Roots told me with ill-disguised distaste that they would not stock such a book because Michels was a Fascist.
"Indeed he was", I replied. "But not when he wrote 'Political Parties'".
Mull