Opinion: Hollow Crown – Is this what the BBC is for?
I’ll immediately rubbish my own title. Of course, the BBC does thousands of things. Its beauty is that hundreds of thousands of people can point to be one thing and say “That is what the BBC is for” –...
View ArticleOpinion: We must dismantle BBC to reform it
If the BBC has been feeling a little cursed of late it can at least feel blessed in having Rupert Murdoch as an enemy. For the truth is that the BBC and Murdoch need to each other to justify their own...
View ArticleMichael Moore MP’s Westminster Notes
Every week, Liberal Democrat Secretary of State for Scotland, Michael Moore MP, writes a column for newspapers in his Borders Constituency. Here is the latest edition. Local television Last week was...
View ArticleOpinion: Nationalists want to monitor the BBC!
A group of MSPs have declared that they’re going to start monitoring BBC Scotland because they don’t think they can deliver on their obligations! That should ring alarm bells! The SNP controlled...
View ArticleLiberal Democrats bring Doctor Who into the Lords
Yesterday, Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords held a debate on broadcast media. Falling in the week after the triumphant 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, it’s hardly surprising that the BBC’s...
View ArticleLord Anthony Lester writes…We will march in the streets for the BBC
Embed from Getty Images Tomorrow the government will publish a white paper setting out its plans for the future of the BBC. At the BAFTA awards on Sunday the director Peter Kosminsky rightly received...
View ArticleThe government’s BBC white paper presents reasonably sensible proposals
Embed from Getty Images The government’s white paper on the BBC (“A BBC for the future: a broadcaster of distinction”) is available to read here. For a white paper, it is attractively presented. It...
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