The BBC boat is not about to be rocked by its newly appointed Chairman; but the blame for which lies with a blustering, but backsliding & bottling Boris Johnson.
My latest for

"The BBC needs a chairman committed to demolishing its institutional groupthink. . . . . . .it isn't going to get one, thanks solely to the timidity & duplicity of Johnson and his flaccid government"
As pretty much confirmed by @Madz_Grant's perceptive sketch of the new BBC chairman's not so much grilling as gentle warming by an unthreatening DCMS Select Ctte.
https://t.co/LRmRlaJFpk
"He fluently deployed trendy corporate jargon and phrases like 'matrix of diversity'. The licence fee, he added, was the 'least-worst' model, although 'when we next get a chance to review ... it may be worth reassessing'."
Doesn't exactly suggest a radical reformer, does it?
Already clear from Maitlis' continued blatant editorialising, despite new #BBC CEO's instruction to curb it, that Davie's executive writ barely runs to his own office door.
Sadly, BBC's new chairman looks unlikely to change that.
#DefundTheBBC
https://t.co/IkYKDZqFf1
New BBC chair to DCMS Select Ctte: "Question Time seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers".
No 'seemed' about it. News-Watch survey established it was skewed 2:1 or more pro-Remain.
Oh, but it was still "incredibly balanced", apparently.
Judging by his first Commons 'grilling' (gentle thawing, more like) the new #BBC Chairman sees no reason to change anything in an organisation in dire need of reform:
ex-BBC journo and trenchant critic Robin Aitken.
https://t.co/ugZ0wkXD5w
Ex-BBC journo Robin Aitken knows whereof he speaks.
Anyone who hasn't read his "The Noble Liar: How and Why the BBC Distorts the News to Promote a Liberal Agenda" needs to, pronto.
#DefundTheBBC
https://t.co/qX3Kx3SBIS
‘In choosing Mr Sharp, a walking caricature of the Establishment, the Johnson government is signalling that it’s opting for a quiet life rather than conflict with the BBC.’
Spot-on, Robin Aitken at @spectator.
https://t.co/OfZwD94hWY>
Precisely. Blame for this is Johnson's alone
Have to wonder about @Telegraph leader writers.
On #BBC loss of trust & audience it says: 'papered over by the generosity of the licence fee payer'.
'Generosity'? FFS, it's an illiberal, regressive tax, levied by coercion on pain of fine or imprisonment.
https://t.co/3i7FMT8vf7

More from Government

This article by Jim Spellar for @LabourList misses the point about why Labour needs to think seriously about constitutional reform - and have a programme for it ready for government.


The state of our constitution is a bit like the state of the neglected electric wiring in an old house. If you are moving into the house, sorting it out is a bit tedious. Couldn’t you spend the time and money on a new sound system?

But if you ignore the wiring, you’ll find that you can’t safely install the new sound system. And your house may well catch fire.

Any programme for social democratic government requires a state with capacity, and a state that has clear mechanisms of accountability, for all the big and all the small decisions that in takes, in which people have confidence.

That is not a description of the modern UK state.

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