Has the government really ‘captured’ the BBC?
The week started with Lucy Frazer, the Culture Secretary calling out the BBC for bias and a failure of impartiality.
She struggled to give many examples of either.
Today, Prospect magazine has done a deep dive into what it calls ‘the right-wing cabal waging war on the principles of our public broadcaster‘.
Is the BBC in thrall to the government? Or is it another institution the government is fighting?
Later, What was Sir Simon Clarke hoping to achieve by calling for the PM to go?
And is the rebellion now dead - or just getting going.
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