But that is not enough. No.10 should never have been in a position to install Gibb in the first place. It shouldn't control the board membership, the DG appointment, or the purse strings. What's required is genuine independence for the BBC.

Dominic Cummings, in an earlier incarnation, ran a secretly-funded 'think tank' dedicated to attacking the Beeb while Robbie Gibb glided effortlessly from GBNews to the BBC & started lecturing staff on impartiality. Imagine (cos you'll have to) how the 'left-wing' equivalent would be reported.

What I would like y'all to at least *try* is say "But that's not what's the law" every once in a while when one of these fuckers open their mouths

and when a braindead Labour spokesperson says something along the lines of "We believe the right to stay here must not be automatic" literally NOT ONE OF YOU FUCKERS stand up and ask "Erm, have you *actually* looked at immigration rules on settlement?"

the robert pestons, the laura kuenssbergs "sanewash" (I hate that phrase) the whole thing so the notoriously offline newspaper peruser thinks everything is fine and it's perfectly okay to propose deporting hundreds of thousands of people from their homes

literal brain worms country.

this is why we have *insane* policy proposals from all four corners and journalists who are earnestly asking no follow-up questions because they think it's all business as usual and not

y'know

fascism writ large