If some middle manager at the BBC was paying attention to the Mail and the Express then they're a numpty. (View Post)

Yeah, I agree this analysis - fear of government pressure rather than actual government pressure - is most likely correct. (View Post)

It's possible that that the decision came from the DG, but I rather suspect it was from a couple of levels down the hierarchy. And in a bureaucratic organisation like that, it might easily have been … (View Post)

It's an oxymoron. Either it's independent or it's a state broadcaster... (View Post)

Might have done. You haven't forgotten it was Boris v Corbyn, right? (View Post)