The BBC must lose

Kevin Myers has a powerful Brussels Signal piece on the BBC/Trump debacle.


Theodore Roosevelt urged, Speak softly and carry a big stick. Donald Trump urges: Bellow like hell and swing a two-handed, double-edged, nuclear-tipped claymore. Different forays, different mores. So MAGA takes on the taxpayer-subsidised cult that is the BBC, the Battle of the Capitals, and by God, the Beeb deserves whatever it gets. It is a cult that lies repeatedly, but operating at so many levels of dysfunctionality that it can blandly deny “knowledge” about the many things that it really should know. Yet when dissenters to its liberal dogmas are being interviewed, they can usually expect a well-researched gotcha gin-trap, that will leave an interviewee limping out of the studio and a small smirk sewn onto an interviewer’s face.

Yes we know about BBC bias and dishonesty, but it's well worth reading the whole piece because a dose of healthy vituperation can be good for the soul. It's good for mine anyway.

So the BBC’s armed forays into the language and culture wars in the liberal interest reveal the power of the schismatic toxins within the anglophone world. Trump’s extraordinary achievement has been to recognise the loathing that ordinary people feel for these liberal disorders and to turn it into a powerful political movement. However, the triumph of Mamdani – a name that means “follower of Mohammed” (what a surprise) – has revealed not merely the limits of that power, but also the depth of the divisions within the Judaeo-Christian communities in the USA. But for now, that is a longer-term issue: Next comes the battle between the BBC and Trump. For the sake of the British people and what little remains of their values, the BBC must lose.