Richard Littlejohn, writing in the Daily Mail

, reckons that Truth is the first Casualty at the BBC, as he weighs into the debate about the BBC’s decision to change a Casualty episode depicting an attack by an Islamist terrorist into an animal rights attack:

I’m only surprised that they didn’t rule that the bus station bombing in Casualty should be carried out by “militants” linked to UKIP, demanding a referendum on the European Constitution.

Turning to the controversy over BBC message boards and the disparity of action against religious bigotry, he asks pertinently:

Anyway, when did it become part of the remit for licence-payers to provide a noticeboard for anonymous anti-Semites?

And then reminds us about the BBC’s apparent problem with the Balen Report, the one that they have gone to so much trouble and tellytax expense to keep under wraps:

Meanwhile, the BBC is still refusing to publish a report it commissioned into whether or not there is systematic anti-Israel bias in its news coverage from the Middle East.

So we’ll take that as a “yes” then.

I don’t like to indulge in gratuitous Beeb-bashing, because there’s so much good about the organisation.

But it is too big, too unaccountable and too riddled with an institutionalised mindset which holds that it’s fine to heap scorn on Christians and Jews, but cravenly appeases Muslims at every turn.

The BBC is a publicly-funded body which has a duty to be even-handed to all and not pander to the political prejudices of those who work for it.

If it can’t manage that, it should be broken up and sold off.

Do read the rest.