If you wait long enough...

What goes around, comes around, folks.  If you refer back to my post of 29/10/12 you will find me talking about the refusal of the BBC (or more accurately, the Director General thereof) to have a statue of George Orwell outside Broadcasting House on the grounds that he was too left-wing.  Well now, three years later, it seems the Corporation have had a change of heart. and are proposing an 8ft statue of the broadcaster and author to be erected.  What would the man himself have made of it? Well, he was no great fan of the BBC, once describing it as "something halfway between a girls' school and a lunatic asylum", but he was a great believer in the need for it - one of my favourite quotes of his was "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not wish to hear".