Biased BBC should pay the penalty

YES, the BBC is a great historical institution renowned throughout the world. I cannot deny that. But is its fame fast declining?

The great British public, rich and poor, are having to subscribe £83bn in the next six years whether we wish to watch it or not, whether we want to pay or not. Remember the poll tax.

And in the current debate I believe the “British” element in its title is being subjected to more than a little irony by a constant drip of woke toxicity,

It is not at all what your columnist, Andrew Vine, or your correspondent, Pauline Allon, believe when they slip into their eulogies on the corporation – “a deliverer of the news in an impartial way”. It has failed dismally, for a long time, to observe this supremely important virtue.

The director general Tim Davie, on his appointment, declared he wanted to correct this left-wing quasiliberal bias but I’m afraid the news department staff are irredeemably woke to the marrow.

The chances of seeing a Conservative or Brexit devotee, among the news staff, is about as rare as seeing a cat at Crufts. No wonder its licence is under threat.

From: Malcolm Nicholson, Barwick-in-Elmet.

WELL done, Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries, for freezing the TV licence fee. Ordinary people are fed up of having to pay to the Leftie, arrogant, outof-touch BBC. Egotists have turned this organisation into an embarrassment of turgid content and repeats.

With his obscene salary and boring insights, Gary Lineker

– in my opinion – is the worst advocate for the corporation.