Tim Davie and Richard Sharp have lost the BBC dressing room
Staff at the broadcaster hold its director-general and chairman in contempt.
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How much longer can Richard Sharp last as BBC chairman?
The Tory-led furore over Gary Lineker and impartiality has only succeeded in making Sharp’s position appear even more untenable.
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The BBC needs to stop being its own worst enemy
The corporation must stand up to Conservative bullying and prioritise fairness over an impossible standard of impartiality.
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Gary Lineker played into the hands of the BBC’s right-wing enemies
Those who want to defund a vital national institution have emerged stronger from this saga.
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David Attenborough’s Wild Isles makes me proud to be British, despite everything
The new series, which roams from Shetland to Cornwall to Northern Ireland to capture our wildlife, is the BBC at…
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Sack him or back him, the BBC cannot win the row over Gary Lineker
Whatever decision Tim Davie makes, he is bound to outrage around half of the British public and a good number…
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When will the BBC get over its fear of the right-wing press?
The Gary Lineker affair has proved the corporation still takes its lead from the same papers that want to destroy…
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The Weigh Up explores life after anorexia
This BBC Sounds podcast is a first-person account of how recovery from the eating disorder is possible.
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In defence of Gary Lineker
How is he the villain for criticising Suella Braverman’s cruel refugee plan?
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Gary Lineker’s pre-emptive strike at BBC head Tim Davie
No one is going to stop the presenter tweeting his opinion.
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Gary Lineker: “The BBC can’t stop me talking about politics”
The Match of the Day presenter on impartiality, disapproval over his pay, and the freedom of podcasting.
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Hugo Blick’s masterful drama The English has left me in slack-jawed awe
I love how Emily Blunt holds a gun in this ultraviolent, suspenseful series set in the American West in the…
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Hannah Barnes: Inside the collapse of the Tavistock gender clinic
The Newsnight journalist on her book Time to Think, and why she had to tell the story of the children…
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The cheap trend of sensationalist docudramas
Colleen Rooney? Boris Johnson? Prince Andrew? All have gone through the pop culture scandal to prestige TV pipeline.
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BBC One’s The Gold is outstandingly enjoyable TV
This madly entertaining drama about the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery doubles as an account of the Thatcherite Eighties.
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Mutiny at the BBC: “Almost everyone has left. No one does any journalism”
After BBC chairman Richard Sharp’s appearance before a select committee, the mood has turned from despondency to rage.
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Our Shamima Begum obsession
Her story has been told and retold in countless newspaper articles, three podcasts and three documentaries. Why can’t we look…
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Why don’t the Irish qualify for reparations?
The BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan is confused about social justice.
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Richard Sharp reveals how dinner parties rule British politics
The BBC chairman has inadvertently given us a glimpse of a culture of unofficial introductions and handshakes.
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How Happy Valley reveals the reality of austerity
Since 2014, Sally Wainwright’s complex police drama has laid bare the hope and terror of living in the north of…
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