The BBC is not what it was, but you'd miss it more than you think if it was gone. Our culture will go more the way of Australia's without it, under the template Murdoch would roughly admire… (View Post)

On the question of the current DG, he isn't up to the job, but then a long list of political appointments haven't been. Alasdair Milne was a very interesting left-of-centre guy appointed un… (View Post)

..which is much more than most people have done, including all the people sneering at him on social media. (View Post)

One thing people are forgetting is that it's actually all a bit more personally felt for Lineker, for a particular reason. He's been putting up refugees in his own house for years, because … (View Post)

Maybe it's time for a French-style programme on footy, in the way late-night BBC would have experimented in 1969. French media-star Philosopher Bernard Henri-Levy and legendary German social the… (View Post)