Why the BBC’s wall-to-wall coverage of Prince Philip’s death was a mistake
In an age of diminishing deference to the royal family, it was wrong for broadcasters to exclude all other stories.
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Can the BBC save itself?
Harry Lambert joins the New Statesman Podcast to discuss his cover story on the future of the BBC.
Why Charles Moore and Paul Dacre would be disastrous for the BBC
Boris Johnson has proposed appointing two men who have spent their careers questioning our national broadcaster’s existence.
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The BBC is taking a wrecking ball to its greatest successes
Haphazard cuts to valued programmes are no solution to the corporation’s existential crisis.
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What is shitposting? And why does it matter that the BBC got it wrong?
The implications of misunderstanding internet terminology go far beyond a minor misread.
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How the BBC’s political coverage is changing
“Now, before we move on to talk about the European election, we’ve been thinking about our political coverage here…” So…
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Why are most University Challenge contestants white men?
Watching the often testosterone-fuelled Oxbridge elite engage in a battle of the intellects under the watchful eye of Jeremy Paxman has…
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The BBC must accept it got it wrong over Cliff Richard, and hope reporting is unscathed
Today’s judgement on the star’s case against the BBC over it’s reporting of his arrest is a sad one..
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How the BBC is exploring our response to trauma
From Grenfell to Manchester Bomb: Our Story, new BBC documentaries are looking at what happens to those affected by national…
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It’s unlikely that the BBC’s gender pay gap row will be resolved anytime soon
The lawyers on both sides are already busy preparing for battle.
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The BBC’s latest head of news has inherited a tough series of defining decisions
The wider battle facing the newly appointed director, Fran Unsworth, is simply to make the case for BBC News.
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The age of lies: how politicians hide behind statistics
Perhaps it is time to combine our Trump-era, heightened sensitivity to untruths with a new broadcasting technique or two.
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Terry Christian: What the most hated man in television did next
As the star of trashy but impossible-to-ignore The Word, Christian has almost become a symbol of the 1990s. Now, he says,…
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