The BBC journalistic consensus since 2010 has tended to be left-of-centre on cultural issues and rightwing on economic and social issues. What's happening now is that there are so many Tory plac… (View Post)

Attenborough ofcourse, in himself, also represents the golden era of BBC cultural and intellectual output before Birt. A very open-minded but also royalist intellectual, who made BBC2 one of the best… (View Post)

No, it shifts from right to left and back ; I would say that's more of an empirical fact. You now have a much larger number of right-of-centre ( on economic matters at least ) staff in in its jo… (View Post)

It's a grim day for the BBC, and its independence, with both the Attenborough and Lineker stories, but it's been also a long time in coming, so people shouldn't be too surprised. Peopl… (View Post)

I personally think the division is between the English big cities/university ones and the red wall/ middle England. London, Brighton, Bristol, Oxford, Manchester, Newcastle, Liverpool all have more i… (View Post)