With perhaps wearying predictability, another major Europhile is firmly in the frame to become as successor to Lord Patten as BBC chairman. It’s rumoured that she is Diana Coyle, the current deputy chairman, an economist who has written books on…

So, it’s good night from him, then. Jeremy Paxman has ended his marathon quarter century stint as presenter of BBC2’s Newsnight. Though he achieved some palpable hits – famously, his devastating interrogation of then home secretary Michael Howard – I think he…

Headline of the week about the BBC is that they are sending 300 staff to cover the Glastonbury festival to deliver around 80 hours of coverage on their main channels on television and radio. Heading the junket are those brilliant…

One of the ways that the BBC defends itself against criticism is to say that viewers have complained in ‘record numbers’ against particular aspects of programming. It’s particularly effective because it creates a smokescreen of the Corporation’s own making and…

The BBC swears until it is blue in the face that it is not biased against the case for withdrawal from the EU, and that it reports the campaign fairly. It engaged at vast expense Stuart Prebble, a former BBC…