Russell T Davies is very much a modern TV writer. He writes Coronation Street style dialogue (Queer As Folk) and uses other people's creations (Doctor Who). We don't find him very original at all.
But Russell believes in a world without barriers of race, gender, etc. He believes in a wonderful present and future.
Or does he?
Actually, we believe Russell to be very bigoted indeed and the guy seems rather typical of a branch of the 'Woke' movement that is actually loaded with bigotry and spite.
But only against accepted groups. Every era has its accepted recipients of bigotry, and for a very long time the English and England have been accepted targets.
Russell used his early Doctor Who revival stories, for instance, to fire potshots at the English on several occasions. He even took an old socialist phrase 'Britain for the British' and turned it into 'England for the English'.
English people - of any origin - are just as likely to demean their own people and country. Which shows the effects of the anti-England/English bias over many decades. We have been brainwashed.
Born in Wales himself, and with severe 'Little Walesian' leanings, Russell believes that his own country (of about three million souls) is somehow lovely and England (apart from Manchester - which he never mentions is an English city, but sees it as a separate entity) is not. Historical, one-sided victimhood narratives abound here.
In a recent Doctor Who story, Russell had English scientist Sir Isaac Newton portrayed by a man of colour, although the actual man was not. Well, fine, who cares? But then Russell portrayed the Scots inventor of the early television system, John Logie Baird, as white - and with ginger hair. Um, couldn't HE have been a man of colour too?
This was obviously because the Scots were not disproportionately active in the British Empire (they were, actually) and were always lovely people set upon by the dastardly English (watched Braveheart, dear?), and linked of course to RTD's very own country, Wales.
Scotland almost bankrupted itself with its own colonisation attempt at Darien, then eagerly joined England and was disproportionately active in the British Empire. Later, of course, Ireland was partitioned by Welsh Prime Minister David Lloyd George, with avid backing of Protestant Scots.
The trouble is, of course, historical revisionism and the fake and highly racist Celtic Nations nonsense (the Celtic notion was applied linguistically not ethnically by Edward Lhuyd, dated from the 1700s and has been debunked by DNA studies) which Russell sees as binding him to his 'fraternal' Scots 'brothers' and 'sisters' and people with other preferred pronouns.
There is much bigotry emanating from the tiny countries of Scotland and Wales. But nobody sees it because they are always projecting it onto England, as are the 'Great and the Good' in England, By the way, England is by far the largest and, even proportionally, ethnically diverse UK country, so the bigotry from the so-called Celtic Nations could be called racism.
It is all very well to have 'right on' legislation called things like 'New Scots', but when you and your politicians are curiously silent about the Barnett Formula and West Lothian Question, which hugely disadvantage the far more ethnically diverse population of the country next door, England, and is largely funded by them, the whole picture becomes very distorted indeed.
United Kingdom? Or uncaring self interest?
It was Rhodri Morgan who crowed: 'We've made the English jealous!' when green-lighting free prescriptions for even millionaires in his own country. On Barnett Formula largesse. So, the largest and most ethnically diverse UK country is discriminated against - and has to provide much of the money for that discrimination.
Russell was - and is - curiously silent.
Our whole political system is riddled with racism - from the Barnett Formula (loathed by its late creator, Lord Joel Barnett), and the West Lothian Question to the sorry state of asymmetric national devolution. Our media, particularly the BBC, hurries to back up the notion of England=Evil.
So, the largest and most ethnically diverse UK country gets the worst deal of all from the 'UK' setup (and do check out William Wilberforce, English politician, whose stance against slavery from the late 1700s onwards was pivotal to ending it), and people like Russell T Davies are attempting to brainwash a whole new generation while laughing like Doctor Who villains.
All the way to the bank.
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