Britain is a decaying, dysfunctional society, and the BBC is complicit in our decline. Our national broadcaster is not merely dishonest, biased and prone to cover-ups, as a Telegraph investigation reveals; it has also been wrong about almost everything that matters.
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Fuelled by billions of pounds extracted via the licence fee, the BBC has spent forty years shrinking the Overton window, waging war against centre-Right dissidents, bullying politicians into following destructive orthodoxies and promoting an anti-Western, anti-capitalist, anti-conservative worldview.
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Its output, riddled with group-think, lapped up by our decrepit establishment, reeks of oikophobia, economic illiteracy, soft socialism, suicidal empathy and luxury beliefs. Seduced by critical theory, the BBC backs the “anywheres” against the “somewheres”, supports global institutions, from the EU to UNRWA, and barely conceals its disgust at those who prefer power to be located at the national level.
One of the BBC’s foundational biases is to assume more government – spending, regulation, intervention, censorship – is the answer to every problem, rather than private initiative and markets. It often describes those on the Left as “respected experts” while labelling others as “Right-wing”.
It is indulgent towards virtue-signalling “charities” and NGOs, and has no interest in who funds them or in gauging the efficacy or track record of their ideas; but is always ready to slam, trash and interrupt their opponents. The BBC assumes the worst of business, and the best of “environmental” or “human rights” campaigners. It rightly holds politicians with genuinely fascistic views to account, but is soft on far-Left extremists such as the repellent Zohran Mamdani, mayor elect of New York.
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The BBC never forgave itself for the modicum of balance it displayed during the EU referendum, and spent the next few years taking Brussels’ side in the Brexit negotiations. It still assembles audiences that over-index on metropolitan Lefties.
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The BBC rarely states its views explicitly, and may even at times believe that it is merely fighting for truth and justice, but its institutional bias is off the charts. Yes, it is regulated, and yes, it generally follows tough box-ticking requirements to demonstrate “balance”, but despite that it remains partial on every contested issue. Its prejudices come through in story selection, the questions it asks, its interview picks and the slant of reporters, editors and interviewers. | | BBC uses journalist who called for ‘Jews to be burned like Hitler did’.....Samer Elzaenen accuses Israel of using starvation as a weapon against Palestinians in BBC Arabic report |
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There are exceptions, but a few unpartisan, journalistic heroes are no match for a structurally parti pris corporate machine gripped by a systemic pensée unique. The BBC is disconnected not just from the working class but from suburban values and Reform and Conservative-voting Britain.
There is endless hand-wringing, much of it justified, over the impact of demented online personalities and fake news, yet the BBC’s role in corrupting our national debate through its ideological gatekeeping is overlooked.
Our pathetic growth and diminished living standards? The BBC made life hard for any politician who had the temerity to call for lower spending, reduced red tape or lower tax rates, the obvious solutions. Years of excessive immigration, which has, inter alia, fuelled Islamism? For decades, it wasn’t possible to propose lower migration without accusations of racism.
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Net zero, which destroyed industry and pushed up energy prices, was pushed almost uncritically by the BBC. Lockdowns? The BBC turned itself into a hysterical purveyor of the official line, claiming the problem was not shutting down fast enough and cancelling anybody who (truthfully) blamed a Chinese virus leak.
Our second-rate NHS? The BBC, to its credit, does expose individual cases of wrongdoing, but overall has played a central role in defending the NHS’s role as our unofficial secular religion.
One reason the Tories’ 14 years in office were a disaster is because they were wrongly terrified of the BBC. Convinced the corporation could make or break any government, they ensured the top 10 per cent of earners were hit at every Budget and dreamt up Leftist policies to pass the “BBC test”.
It is in this context that the memo sent to the corporation’s board by internal whistleblower Michael Prescott, revealed by The Telegraph, should be read.
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A Panorama documentary a week before the US elections spliced together two sections of a speech by Donald Trump on the day of the Capitol Hill riots. Trump, whom the BBC hates, was made to appear as if he were inciting supporters to go to Congress and “fight like hell”, when he was actually encouraging them to protest peacefully. Why hasn’t the BBC deployed its ludicrous “fact-checkers” against itself?
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The memo reveals BBC bosses were “dismissive” and defensive when academics accused it of rewriting history to promote a woke agenda, especially with regards to slavery, colonialism and the Irish famine. The BBC regularly behaves as a propaganda channel, a campaigning organisation for extreme views, not as a middle of the road, dispassionate news media for all of Britain.
Damningly, the report accuses BBC Arabic of deciding to “minimise Israeli suffering” in the Gaza war to “paint Israel as the aggressor”. Allegations against the Jewish state were “raced to air” without proper checks, as were Hamas’s made-up casualty figures, implying either incompetence or “a desire always to believe the worst about Israel”.
It’s not just BBC Arabic, in my view: the corporation’s overall output has propagated incendiary libels against Israel for years, and especially since October 7. Given its influence and reach, this has played a central role in fuelling the return of anti-Semitism in Britain and around the world. It’s a shameful, foul betrayal.
| | The BBC may never win back the trust of the Jewish communityFailures on anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias are embedded in the detail of the corporation’s reporting |
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Heads must roll. Tim Davie, the director general, must resign. BBC Arabic needs to be shut down. The licence fee must be abolished, as well as all subsidies for any part of the BBC. The corporation should become a member-controlled charity, funded through advertising, subscriptions or donations, or disappear. We need private Left-wing media, and we need private Right-wing media, but it is madness to force taxpayers to underwrite the warping of our polity. Enough is enough.
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Britain is a decaying, dysfunctional society, and the BBC is complicit in our decline. Our national broadcaster is not merely dishonest, biased and prone to cover-ups, as a Telegraph investigation reveals; it has also been wrong about almost everything that matters.
Exclusive: BBC doctored Trump speech, internal report reveals
Corporation edited footage in Panorama programme to make it seem president was encouraging Capitol riot, accordi...
Fuelled by billions of pounds extracted via the licence fee, the BBC has spent forty years shrinking the Overton window, waging war against centre-Right dissidents, bullying politicians into following destructive orthodoxies and promoting an anti-Western, anti-capitalist, anti-conservative worldview.
BBC’s bias ‘pushed Hamas lies around the world’
Leaked dossier says corporation’s Arabic service boosted terror group’s claims and minimised Israeli suffering
Its output, riddled with group-think, lapped up by our decrepit establishment, reeks of oikophobia, economic illiteracy, soft socialism, suicidal empathy and luxury beliefs. Seduced by critical theory, the BBC backs the “anywheres” against the “somewheres”, supports global institutions, from the EU to UNRWA, and barely conceals its disgust at those who prefer power to be located at the national level.
One of the BBC’s foundational biases is to assume more government – spending, regulation, intervention, censorship – is the answer to every problem, rather than private initiative and markets. It often describes those on the Left as “respected experts” while labelling others as “Right-wing”.
It is indulgent towards virtue-signalling “charities” and NGOs, and has no interest in who funds them or in gauging the efficacy or track record of their ideas; but is always ready to slam, trash and interrupt their opponents. The BBC assumes the worst of business, and the best of “environmental” or “human rights” campaigners. It rightly holds politicians with genuinely fascistic views to account, but is soft on far-Left extremists such as the repellent Zohran Mamdani, mayor elect of New York.
Zohran Mamdani: The socialist the billionaires couldn’t stop
High profile figures fruitlessly poured tens of millions of dollars into bid to stop 34-year-old socialist
The BBC never forgave itself for the modicum of balance it displayed during the EU referendum, and spent the next few years taking Brussels’ side in the Brexit negotiations. It still assembles audiences that over-index on metropolitan Lefties.
TV watchdog faces legal battle over ‘glaring BBC Brexit bias’
News-Watch wins permission to seek a judicial review of what it claims is Ofcom’s refusal to investigate pro-EU ...
BBC uses journalist who called for ‘Jews to be burned like Hitler did’.....
Samer Elzaenen accuses Israel of using starvation as a weapon against Palestinians in BBC Arabic report
There is endless hand-wringing, much of it justified, over the impact of demented online personalities and fake news, yet the BBC’s role in corrupting our national debate through its ideological gatekeeping is overlooked.
Our pathetic growth and diminished living standards? The BBC made life hard for any politician who had the temerity to call for lower spending, reduced red tape or lower tax rates, the obvious solutions. Years of excessive immigration, which has, inter alia, fuelled Islamism? For decades, it wasn’t possible to propose lower migration without accusations of racism.
Islam has been a problem in Britain for a long time. It’s time to face u...
It is late in the day: Westminster must shake off its complacency
Our second-rate NHS? The BBC, to its credit, does expose individual cases of wrongdoing, but overall has played a central role in defending the NHS’s role as our unofficial secular religion.
One reason the Tories’ 14 years in office were a disaster is because they were wrongly terrified of the BBC. Convinced the corporation could make or break any government, they ensured the top 10 per cent of earners were hit at every Budget and dreamt up Leftist policies to pass the “BBC test”.
It is in this context that the memo sent to the corporation’s board by internal whistleblower Michael Prescott, revealed by The Telegraph, should be read.
Nine ways the BBC misled viewers over Trump
Internal report details alleged bias during US election including claim president’s Capitol speech was ‘doctored’
Why Trump speech scandal could be costly for the BBC
Broadcaster should brace itself for US president’s retaliation to ‘doctored’ footage
Damningly, the report accuses BBC Arabic of deciding to “minimise Israeli suffering” in the Gaza war to “paint Israel as the aggressor”. Allegations against the Jewish state were “raced to air” without proper checks, as were Hamas’s made-up casualty figures, implying either incompetence or “a desire always to believe the worst about Israel”.
It’s not just BBC Arabic, in my view: the corporation’s overall output has propagated incendiary libels against Israel for years, and especially since October 7. Given its influence and reach, this has played a central role in fuelling the return of anti-Semitism in Britain and around the world. It’s a shameful, foul betrayal.
The BBC may never win back the trust of the Jewish community
Failures on anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias are embedded in the detail of the corporation’s reporting
You can sign up to receive Allister Heath’s exclusive analysis of the week in politics here.