Everything that's wrong with the BBC, and possibly Britain

BBC headline from the Lib Dems conference: "Kennedy given ovation on return"
Minor story from the same conference: "Sir Menzies wins crunch tax vote"

So an ex-party leader getting an ovation, as if he ever wouldn't if only because he's fighting alcoholism, is more important than the fact that there is no longer a vaguely serious UK political party advocating progressive taxation?

Now before anyone goes off on a misguided tangent I'm UK tax resident and I've never voted Lib Dem. But this stinks.