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Did Farage consider a £5 million bung his salary?

The Reform leader told Nick Robinson he would pay the huge donation back if the BBC presenter did the same with his salary. Does he consider them the same?

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The Mail’s hypocrisy over BBC’s World Cup cost-cutting

It usually lambasts the corporation for its lavish spending – but now it’s attacking it for not spending enough on sending staff to North America

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Police need to arrest more Sikhs, says Jacob Rees-Mogg

The former Cabinet minister has badly misunderstood police guidance on equality of outcome

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The shocking lesson of the BBC’s Brexit: A Very British Civil War

They lied and lied, we were complacent - and the culture war began in earnest

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The worst and best bits of the Burnham v Kenyon Question Time

When the would-be next PM squared up to the sexist plumber in a Makerfield by-election special, there was only going to be one winner

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Reform candidate Robert Kenyon plumbs the depths with a car crash interview

The party's candidate for the Makerfield by-election gave a BBC interview in which he managed to make himself sound even worse

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Farage, the man desperate to get on Desert Island Discs, doesn’t listen to music

The Reform leader is furious he hasn’t been on Radio 4’s castaway show. But when asked in 2025 what music he likes, he replied: ‘None’

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The BBC’s AI Question Time is forced to forget about Che

A controversial edition of the current affairs show was planned to feature an AI-generated Che Guevara – until an issue over image rights intervened

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Talk Plagiarism To Me: BBC pilfers podcast’s name

The title of the Corporation’s new history podcast is remarkably similar to that of an indie show about the 1990s

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The BBC needs a last-chance strategy – and here’s what Matt Brittin should deliver

The new DG’s task is daunting but simple: Replace the license fee, fix news output and double down on YouTube

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What did Question Time’s far right podcaster really say about Rishi Sunak?

Konstantin Kisin denied dismissing the former PM as a "brown Hindu" despite saying it on his own podcast

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Is there life after Melvyn Bragg for In Our Time?

The veteran presenter of the BBC Radio 4 show, which I co-created, is a tough act to follow, but Misha Glenny seems equal to the task

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Chris Mason, the BBC’s Farage fanboy

The corporation's political editor has penned another piece cheering on Reform after Suella Braverman defected to the party

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BBC’s deputy chair is quids in

New Companies House filings show Sir Damon Buffini's firm as having very healthy accounts indeed

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Has BBC’s Mandy fallen foul of Donald?

A Christmas special of Diane Morgan's comedy has been axed by BBC bosses amid speculation it mocked Donald Trump

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The Monkey business behind Robin Ince’s BBC departure

The Infinite Monkey Cage host quits in another free speech row - but some insiders say there's more to it than his pro-trans views

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How impartial is the BBC’s Chris Mason?

The political editor made an eye-catching judgement on Rachel Reeves - but it has drawn him into a row about political bias

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Michael Prescott: the BBC assassin’s woeful day in Parliament

The man whose report got rid of the BBC’s boss faced MPs yesterday, along with a group of senior BBC executives. Their appearance raised more questions than it answered

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Rutger Bregman accuses BBC of ‘cowardice’ after anti-Trump quotes purged from lecture

The corporation axed part of a lecture in which the Dutch historian described Trump as 'the most openly corrupt president in American history'

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If Michael Prescott didn’t leak the BBC bias dossier to the Telegraph, who did?

A whodunnit with serious implications for the future of the broadcaster is underway – with all expected to be revealed at a select committee showdown

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Hey liberals! What you gonna do?

The right are undermining the institutions of liberal democracy. Progressives must change tack to stop them

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Truss backs Trump in his war on the BBC

The short-lived former prime minister has thrown her support behind the president's billion-dollar legal threat to the corporation

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The double standards of the BBC’s critics

The Daily Mail and Telegraph have spent days attacking the corporation for lying, while being guilty of making up stories themselves

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EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report

A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself

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Alastair Campbell: how Starmer should defend the BBC

A speech last night in London showed how the PM can stand up to Trump and make clear that the UK’s public broadcaster will not be pushed around

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Some loopy names in the mix to be the BBC’s new chief

Isabel Oakeshott is championing former Mail editor Paul Dacre to be the new director general, while the Sun's Harry Cole thinks it should be himself

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BBC lectured on political bias… by Newsmax

Radio 4's Today programme invited on the founder of the right wing US cable TV firm to pontificate on the Beeb's failings

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Why Tim Davie and Deborah Turness jumped before they were pushed

One was expected to depart soon, amid suggestions of a job at the Premier League, while the other felt her position was untenable

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The malign right can’t be allowed to destroy the BBC

Panorama made mistakes but this ‘scandal’ is the work of populists trying to control the airwaves. They won’t rest

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How the BBC can rebuild itself

Reeling from the Panorama crisis and with the future of its news operation threatened by AI that tells us only what we want to hear, it’s vital to have a national broadcaster that tells us what we need to know

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Chris Mason’s defence of the BBC over Farage coverage goes badly wrong

Soon after its political editor denied giving Reform an easy ride, the Beeb broadcast 56 minutes of the populist’s press conference, live

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BBC fails to give credit where it’s due

The corporation was happy to use our exclusive about Elon Musk and the Royal Society - but failed to acknowledge where it came from