It’s time to break up the BBC and sell it off
It will never happen, claim apologists for the Corporation and faint-hearts among the public. They said the same about Brexit.
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It will never happen, claim apologists for the Corporation and faint-hearts among the public. They said the same about Brexit.
After a weekend of turmoil at the Beeb, Lineker is set to return to our screens once again this coming Saturday as a Match of the Day host.
A direct public subsidy to create a TV station for news, current affairs in general and the arts would renew a BBC in the steps of the Reithian legacy.
Around 20 singers will lose their jobs and the nation a choral institution that is almost 100 years old and widely acclaimed. The music world is apoplectic.
The Golden Boot may have gone too far even for the BBC with his criticism that the new migration bill is like “Germany in the 1930s.”
Money is driving the Beeb to shift its news focus abroad, but it shouldn’t forget where it came from.
The Beeb is deluded if it believes its digital heft can be built on a diminished brand. Sacrificing seasoned pros is a big blunder.
Sharp’s allies say he is going nowhere. But for the sake of the country and the BBC, he must stand aside.
Neither side are holding back in their attacks ahead of tonight’s tete-a-tete.
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