About a week ago I wrote and published an article that was for me uncharacteristic praise for the BBC for deciding to abandon their connection to the troubling Stonewall group. I said at the time that I didn’t completely buy into the BBC’s excuse that this was down to not wanting to appear partial towards Stonewall and I believed that there was something else going on.
This series of podcasts by BBC Radio Ulster journalist Stephen Nolan appears to be that ‘something else’.
I’ve not listened to all the podcasts yet but as far as I’ve listened to it they are an excoriating expose of Stonewall and its activities within the BBC and in local and national government. Others are equally impressed with it such as Gareth Roberts of Unherd.
I completely agree with Mr Roberts that Stonewalls malign influence over the BBC and various governmental and non-governmental entities, including police forces, needs to be exposed and that the best way to do that would be a proper public enquiry.
You can listen to the Stephen Nolan podcasts via the link below:
In the early days of broadcasting when infrastructure and programming needed building and no other providers existed the BBC was a great institution and the license system was fair and reasonable. Those days are long gone and the BBC is now the voice of the woke left wing and should be forced to make its own way in our commercial world. Forcing unwilling people to pay for its left wing propaganda and woke views by law and demanding money with menaces from over 75 year olds is a downright scandal.
What gets me is how swiftly the BBC has gone from being half decent to absolutely shit. ‘Life on Mars’ is an excellent series tht I’m rewatching and it was made in 2005. I can’t imagine tht it would be made today or at least not made without very heavy handed politicisation.
The political reasoning in the 1920’s for making the BBC a broadcast monopoly was to avoid the free for all situation that existed in the time in the USA and to a certain extent that was justified. However there were signs in the thirties that people were looking for something else other than ‘Auntie’ because people were tuning in to Continental MW stations who were giving them the entertainment that the BBC was not.
I used to think that there was something that could be saved of the BBC, maybe to turn it into a cultural hub that preserved and promoted the best of British culture. But now I’m not so sure. The BBC may be so rotten through and through that this might not be possible now. I think that the best way for the BBC to go would be to be a subscription service. If you like it then you pay for it if you don’t then you don’t.
The BBC dare not become a subscription service because that would expose just how unpopular it really is and only a few people would sign up for it. If your going to continue to hand out 75,000 pound pay rises you need the ability to extort money from the unwilling by law.
I agree with you to a certain extent. Turning the BBC into a subscription service would reveal just how many, or how few, Britons are prepared to voluntarily pay for the BBC. If this happened then I predict a massive drop in those choosing the BBC but it could bounce back if it starts to provide the programmes that people want to watch.