HE

describes himself as a passionate supporter of the BBC, but now even Melvyn Bragg has taken a swipe at Aunty Beeb for being excessively PC. Lord Bragg, 74, said he was dismayed by last week’s report in The Mail on Sunday that the BBC had, to avoid giving offence, cut the word ‘girl’ from a report about a female judo champion. Lord Bragg, who presents Radio 4’s In Our Time, said: ‘I couldn’t believe it. I thought, where are we going with this? This sort of reaction can turn into a form of authoritarianism where people are too scared to say anything.’