An increase in refugees should be mirrored by a reduction in other migration. This won’t happen – and the Government is showing that it buckles under pressure.
Now the Corporation must explain how the public came to be misled.
The Culture Secretary has been one of its most scathing critics. Rather than defend it now, he should embrace Gove’s calls for change.
In the digital age, the distinction between broadcast and print media is breaking down.
Also: Anger in Ulster as unions back Corbyn; Police Scotland accused of spying on journalists; devolved governments join forces in BBC battle; and SNP members quit due to rematch delay.
The labour front-runner mulls public ownership and the politics of revolution with Andrew Marr.
They could at once increase viewer engagement, diminish the Corporation’s monopoly power, and reduce political involvement in its funding.
Plus: Zac Goldsmith tells me that he won’t stand in a by-election if the Heathrow decision fails to go his way.
As a coercively-funded state organ of enormous influence and reach, political oversight of the Corporation is both just and necessary.
Tony Hall is challenged on the charge that, by covering the cost of free licences for over-75s, the Corporation has become an arm of the welfare state.
The Corporation’s behaviour is unlikely to help its lobbyists convince Westminster that it deserves licence fee renewal.
Newly-hired public servants earning more than £60,000 per annum should be on fixed term three year contracts.
Technological change does mean that the Corporation needs reform. But alternative funding models risk diminishing the its output.
if BBC is going to move to the next stage of its development, it has to accept that the licence fee is both unjustifiable and unsustainable.
The BBC’s latest experiment, bringing Chinese teachers into the classroom, reveals the true source of bad behaviour.