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Daniel Hind is the co-author with Tom Chivers and Tom Mills of Our Mutual Friend: The BBC in the Digital Age, published by Common Wealth: https://www.common-wealth.org/publications/our-mutual-friend-the-bbc-in-the-digital-age
In recent years the BBC has sidelined the left while amplifying the right. The result has been a steady loss of authority and credibility. But with just a little imagination and effort it could begin to restore its reputation as an impartial news source.
The scale of the Partygate scandal makes clear that it could never have been a secret – it’s just the latest piece of information the public discovers when it suits the powerful.
Dominic Cummings’ recent interviews reveal an awareness that the political system is broken, but a narrow analysis as to why – because it is populated by the wrong people, not designed to serve the wrong interests.