However, the past several years have seen a resurgence in leftwing politics few expected, even given the 2008 financial crisis and the decidedly anti-people, pro-corporation response of most major governments.
"The corporations' response is the same, to say, 'trust us, we've got this under control,'" Sellers said.
The corporation's response?
By the standards of any secular state or multinational corporation, that response might seem aloof.
Hall made the comments while outlining the corporation's response to the government's review of the BBC's royal charter and funding deal.
Jeremy Paxman described the BBC's handling of the Jimmy Savile scandal was "almost as contemptible" as the DJ himself, questioned what the BBC was doing promoting such "this absurd, malign figure" and that the corporation's response to crisis was "pathetic".
Tusa said the BBC's director of audio and music, Tim Davie, who fronted the corporation's response to the complaints yesterday, had "no experience of broadcasting policy" and had been "thrown to the wolves".
There's also been a demand that media outlets across the board fall into line with the hyperbolic conflation of terrorists and Muslims in general that has characterised News Corporation's response from the top to the bottom.
Greg somehow got a £456,000 payoff from the BBC after completely mishandling the corporation's response to Andrew Gilligan's Today programme report on the dodgy Iraq dossier – although in fairness to the Beeb it coughed that one up in timely fashion.
Tony Hall, the BBC Director-General, will set out plans to enhance the World Service's role as "the UK's most important cultural export", in a speech on 7 September, in which he will deliver the corporation's response to Government proposals which could radically reduce its size and scope.
