Well, He Would, Wouldn’t He?

I see The New Statesman is recommending a new article with the headline The BBC needs to stand up for itself. Of all the UK’s news outlets, it is still best placed to tell the story straight. 

The NS tweets:

Director-general Tim Davie should be challenging the charge that the corporation has moved away from impartial reporting, not accepting it, writes Philip J Collins.

You'll have seen this Phil Collins on BBC politics shows many, many times. He's long been a favourite pundit of the corporation's.

Quite why this arch-Blairite who helped write Sir Keir Starmer's 2021 Labour Party Conference speech and is married to BBC news presenter Geeta Guru-Murthy is so intensely relaxed about BBC impartiality and believes the BBC ''does the best it can, in difficult circumstances, to tell the story straight'' is surely anyone's guess. 😜