BBC’s guilty silence

SINCE Tuesday, this paper has exposed the unsavoury truth about the man whose tainted family millions bankroll both Labour’s deputy leader and the country’s only state-approved Press regulator.

We have told how Max Mosley, as a young racist thug, visited Dachau concentration camp on his way to meet former Waffen-SS officers with his fascist father, Sir Oswald.

We have revealed how he also published an election leaflet – whose existence he later denied under oath – claiming ‘coloured’ immigrants spread diseases such as VD and leprosy. We have detailed how, many years later, he cosied up to South Africa’s apartheid regime, which helped lay the foundations of a £6billion F1 motor racing empire.

This is the man who was involved in a £1million donation to Tony Blair’s Labour (seen since as a sweetener to secure F1’s exemption from a tobacco advertising ban), apparently intended to advance his hopes of a safe Labour seat. He is also the degenerate who has pursued a vendetta against the Press since it exposed his sado-masochistic orgy with five prostitutes.

The Mail’s revelations were extensively followed up by almost every other media outlet. There was, however, one exception: The BBC all but ignored this story of national importance, which saw police called in to investigate perjury, while Labour refused to accept more cash from Mosley (though still clinging to the £540,000 he has given deputy leader Tom Watson).

Is this because the Corporation was embarrassed by the fact it has lovingly embraced Mosley for years, giving him a platform to vent his hatred of the free Press? Or is it just appalling journalism? We’ll let our readers decide.