Am so with you there.

I think the combination of the dominance by the BBC of news, together with the levels of trust it enjoys, gives it a degree of influence which is unhealthy for it and for democracy. And it uses them to perpetuate a status quo-ism which is demonstrably failing the nation.

Personally I'd be pleased to see BBC News disappear entirely. To argue, as many do, that British politics or our news environment would be so much worse without the BBC you have to explain why British politics and news environment is so very bad with the BBC.

For me, the division is both unsurprising - public institutions are conservative; they lean towards power and the status quo - and revealing. Those who sit under the protective umbrella that institutions throw up are surprisingly incurious about what life is like for those who live outside it.

I'm pretty sure when the story first broke the Today programme described Michael Prescott as an "independent" adviser to the BBC. Might it correct itself?

Eviscerating, and rightly, this from @janemartinson.bsky.social, about the inept attack that brought down the BBC's inept leadership. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

That's my best guess too.

Baffling, isn't it?

No wonder she's pissed off, tbf. But why always with the wrong people?

I mean, unlike on X, BlueSky is not yet overrun with trolls so you have to believe they mostly believe what they're saying despite its inherent silliness... My guess? They can't get past the insult to the male amour-propre to think rationally.

The true progenitor of the walking intellectual sinkhole that is Kishwer Falkner.

Awww. Not sure I deserve much credit for stating the blindingly obvious - that men are fucking everything up - but thank you.

Hard to imagine a dumber and more sexist impulse than to deny the existence of the patriarchy.