Opinion is cheap and easy. The BBC’s mission is to deliver facts and evidence | Clive Myrie
Indulge me for a few seconds and close your eyes. Now, imagine a world without the BBC. What's it like in the darkness? No EastEnders or RuPaul's Drag Race. No Newsnight or Question Time. No Snog, Marry, Avoid? or Ten O'Clock News. No Glow Up or Strictly, no Proms, no Radio 4 or 3 or iPlayer. No World Service, no Line of Duty or Peaky Blinders, no Attenborough and Planet Earth and, heaven forbid, no Mastermind!
What kind of a world is it for you? For many, it would be a pretty poor one. Others would disagree. Their reasoning might be based on a deeply held belief that the BBC is full of lefties, especially in its news division. Hooray, they'd say, no more woke news and pernicious identity politics. No more wokey blokeys, telling me I can't sing Rule, Britannia! at the Last Night of the Proms. No more banging on about the Lionesses having no black players!
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