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I’m sure we used to have a thread dedicated to the good old Beeb, but I’ve been back twenty pages and cannot find it…
Anyway, a new director general has been announced, so will this herald a new age for the broadcaster affectionately known as “Aunty”?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjd97evn2gko
Will the BBC halt its lurch to the right under the former director general (and Tory) Tim Davie? Will Matt Brittin modernise the online output (given his many years with Google, he should know a thing or two about the online world)? Will he make the necessary cuts (I’d nominate Tory Kuenssberg as the first one to get the boot)? How will the venerable establishment survive if Farage and the loonies win the next general election?
It will certainly be an interesting few years for the national public broadcaster.
I have followed the BBC for years because they are politically neutral and merely publish the facts, unlike Fox News, for example, that just churns out right wing propaganda.
We need to collectively support the BBC as it has been subject to a massive onslaught from the last Consecutive government and other right wingers. These wholly biased people have constantly argued that the BBC is a left wing organisation when nothing could be further from the truth. This onslaught has caused the BBC to move to the right. We must ensure it goes back to where it should be – centre, not left or right.
I’ve just got back from racing at Kempton Park this afternoon and turned on BBC News to catch up on the day’s events. Understandably, their US correspondent came up first but when they switched to the London studio, the two lead headlines were the arrest of Tiger Woods and the Pope’s visit to Monaco.
Any mention of the anti-fascist rally in London today, attended by an estimated half a million people? Nope. Had it been a far-right rally, even a far smaller one, you can guarantee that it would have been the lead non-Iran story.
By the way, Sarah Pochin must be puce with rage this evening: both the Washington presenter and the studio lead are brown women.
19:21 – the protests in the US against Trump get coverage… still no mention of the rally in London.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2rn03ryz8o
It’s featured not particularly prominently on the website now, in the ‘Around the UK’ section. It was a national event almost certainly attended by people from all over the country.
Three paragraphs at the end are dedicated to a right wing rally that took place in September 2025, what relevance that has I have no idea.
Edit: nowhere to be seen on the main page or even the politics page on Sunday morning. You can now only find it by going to the regional London page.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckge1yn50y8o
That is very sudden. They must have him bang to rights because he was still on air around a week ago which is almost no time for an investigation. I can’t see that they’d terminate one of their highest paid employees from a flagship radio slot without very solid evidence.
I am sure it will come out in all good time. It muat have been so serious for BBC’s management to believe they had to take such action.
There must be more to this, it’s all a bit odd so far. It has now emerged that there was an alleged offence involving a boy under 16 but there wasn’t enough evidence to charge, which means that he hasn’t actually done anything wrong, at least based on what we know. Is that on its own worth a (seemingly) sudden sacking?
Brings us back to the age old question of whether such information should be made public. Some people will now have made up their minds despite the fact that he’s never been charged.
Pure speculation on my part, but it’s possible Mills never informed his employer about the questioning/case years ago. Therefore, a gross misconduct ‘charge’ against the employee comes into play, and instant dismissal, if the employer wishes to go down that route.
Entirely possible and not something that would take long to investigate, he either informed them or he didn’t. For obvious reasons, the BBC is going to be very careful about such matters and presumably they can put in the contract that they must be informed of any police investigations or similar.
Can someone tell me who knows more than me(which ain’t hard) why can BBC say we don’t comment on individual cases, do we not pay his wages?
I don’t know much about employment law, or even the law in general but he’s entitled to a fair hearing. There will be an appeals process available to him which I assume could go as far as the courts in theory, and we know his salary, he can afford good lawyers. The BBC can’t just tell us everything, certain facts could prejudice any appeals process and hand him a slam dunk win.
Just a semi-educated guess, happy to be corrected.
I see their website has got a running commentary on Carol Kirkwood’s last day as a weather presenter.
Jesus wept.
Yesterday morning the BBC was broadcasting from outside Number 10 on Reform’s latest ramblings about immigration. Instead of the usual in house style of caption at the bottom of the screen containing the relevant information it was in turquoise with the Reform logo. They never do that for any other party.
If you don’t believe by now that the BBC is actively promoting Reform then you never will. I had to check this wasn’t a fake because it seemed so ludicrous even by the BBC’s low standards and it does as far as I can tell appear to be genuine.
Did you raise a complaint, Richard?
I have done so about their pro-Reform bias in the past, but not about anything as flagrant as you’re saying that was. Pity I didn’t see it – I was actually working, which will make Wilts happy.
OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened. Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah. (h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)
— Alex Andreou (@sturdyalex.bsky.social) 2026-04-20T18:28:05.693Z
Found the clip in question, I didn’t see it as it happened which was apparently at around 6.05am on Breakfast. I have never seen a party logo displayed in that fashion on the BBC before.
Looks like plenty have sent complaints in.
As an aside, ‘chyron’ is a new word to me.
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