BBC run by those who loathe Britain writes journalist and author Frederick Forsyth

in today’s Daily Express.

Forsyth rails against the BBC’s recently noticed problems, their continued employment of Peter Fincham, “day after day of servile grovelling to Tony Blair, Cherie Ditto and Alastair Campbell” and the question of “whether Radio 4’s Today programme is passionately pro-EU. It is like starting a board of inquiry to ask if the sun rises in the East”, before getting in to his stride on the subject of Antony Jay’s new CPS pamphlet, Confessions of a Reformed BBC Producer (PDF download):

In his monograph he describes the trendy, witless, Left-wing, anti-Crown, anti-armed forces, anti-just-about-everything-British?comm­unity of young BBC recruits to the NCA division back then. I had no idea the termites had entered the woodwork that early.

Forty years later, as he explains, their conquest of the NCA sector of the BBC has become total and even more fanatical. He makes it perfectly clear that for this far-Left, Guardian-worshipping mindset, there is no place?for?hard-nosed?impartial news. The “agenda” comes first, middle and last. And the agenda is fundamentally describable in two words: loathe Britain.

In all of the recent focus on the BBC’s problems with integrity, there has been little attention paid to the integrity of the BBC’s News & Current Affairs divisions – not because of any lack of need – but because the news agenda in the UK is dominated by the BBC, and the BBC News & Current Affairs turkeys are hardly going to inform their tellytax-paying customers of the need for their own Christmas along with the rest of the BBC.

Do read the rest of Mr. Forsyth’s column, and also the PDF (link above) of Antony Jay’s excellent new CPS pamphlet.

Thank you to an anonymous commenter for the Daily Express link.