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10:09 15.11.2025 •
A media war has broken out in Britain.
‘The Telegraph’ recently accused the BBC of faking a video report about US President Donald Trump. This scandal cost the BBC's director his job. Now, ‘The Daily Mail’ is attacking its colleagues, further evidence of the escalating war.
It's hard to remember a time when something like this has happened in Britain, which means a silent political civil war is brewing, manifesting itself in a clash between different media outlets expressing different political positions.
The post-1990s generation of BBC staff have no such knowledge or experience. They weren’t journalists as most of us would understand the term. They were just BBC clones, writes Peter Hitchens, ‘The Daily Mail’ observer, writes.
On the increasingly rare occasions when I am allowed into the Death Star which is the hideous new London HQ of the BBC, I often feel glares of hate boring into my back, especially if I have come in to speak against the legalisation of marijuana.
I feel sorry for the young man or woman who has been given the embarrassing job of conducting me into the building. Alas, I probably shan’t have this pleasure much longer. My invitations to the BBC grow rarer, and smaller, all the time.
Once, it was very different. Back in the 1990s, when an older generation was still in charge, I managed to make quite a few appearances on BBC radio and TV.
I still make rare brief visits to odd corners of BBC output, but it is plain that the old more tolerant view of non-Leftists has given way to a much more militant, narrow dogma. Of course the BBC is biased, and the bias spreads far beyond news and politics, even into drama – especially soap opera plotlines frantically normalising the continuing sexual revolution. Why does anyone pretend otherwise?
Yet they do. For the past few days, anti-social media have been full of Left-wing people saying the BBC is not biased. Are they quite mad?
Some BBC staff have also burst out even on air to claim that this immensely rich and powerful institution, which has for decades ignored and openly despised millions of the people who pay for it, is the helpless victim of some sort of Rightist plot.
These BBC defenders just know in their guts that the giant, wealthy, smug broadcaster, crammed with people on luxury salaries, is their friend.
Few grasp that it does not belong only to them, and that those who do not share their opinions can be threatened with prison if they don’t pay the poll-tax called the BBC licence fee.
None of them, rather hilariously, realise that their clamour actually harms the BBC. For no such protests are coming from the Right, as the Corporation churns and flounders over its own undoubted severe professional failures (I put this gently) over Donald Trump, the Middle East and other major controversies.
The Right are not protesting because they are not deluded. The BBC is beyond doubt a deeply Left-wing body, and has been for many years. Its influence on the direction of British politics, morals and culture is gigantic, much like that of the medieval church before the Reformation.
Millions of people know this to be a fact. If you oppose British membership of the EU, or think immigration is out of control, or are not convinced that global warming is man-made, or think criminals should be punished, then the BBC doesn’t need you and expects the same in return. Just in case anyone seriously wants to dispute this, I have evidence from the best possible sources – the BBC’s own favourites and chiefs. Several of the Corporation’s brightest minds have admitted the truth.
Andrew Marr was once a rather fiercely Left-wing columnist on the Daily Express. He mysteriously became impartial again (does this hurt?) when he went off to work as BBC political editor. He was even franker.
He described the Corporation as ‘a publicly-funded urban organisation with an abnormally large proportion of younger people, of people in ethnic minorities and almost certainly of gay people, compared with the population at large’. All this, he rightly said, ‘creates an innate liberal bias inside the BBC’.
The distinguished radio presenter John Humphrys agreed, saying in the Radio Times that ‘The BBC has tended over the years to be broadly liberal as opposed to broadly conservative for all sorts of perfectly understandable reasons… The sort of people we’ve recruited – the best and brightest – tended to come from universities and backgrounds where they’re more likely to hold broadly liberal views than conservative.’
These people are clever and experienced. They have worked outside the Corporation’s Death Star and have met and even respected others who don’t share the leaden campus group-think of the sad young recruits who are now taking over.
The post-1990s generation of BBC staff have no such knowledge or experience. They weren’t journalists as most of us would understand the term. They were just BBC clones.
Just as a goldfish in a bowl does not know that it is a goldfish, or even that it is in a bowl of water, these poor indoctrinated men and women have no idea that they are deeply, unshakably biased. Many of them have never met anyone they disagree with. If they have, they will have despised them.
There is an answer to this, but it is incredibly radical. To reverse the BBC’s Left-liberal revolution, you would also have to reverse the revolution in the schools, the political parties, and the universities. For how else would you produce the people needed to restore the balance?
But how can we even begin to do such things when the national elite refuse to admit there is anything wrong?
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