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12 December 2014

John Simpson: “The BBC faces an existential crisis”

Under attack yet again from the government, the corporation must make savage cuts. But knee-jerk decisions could do it – and our national life – irreparable damage.

By John Simpson

George Osborne by Ralph Steadman

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