https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/08/canceling-british-pride-bruce-bawer/
The first thing to know is that the BBC was never objective. In the 1930s, when Churchill was repeatedly warning his fellow members in Parliament about the dangers of Nazi Germany, the BBC refused him airtime to share his warnings with the general public. In the 1950s, BBC honchos fought tooth and nail against the breakup of their monopoly that finally permitted the introduction of commercial television.
Yes, Thatcher reformed the BBC. But after she was gone, Labour swiftly un-reformed it. Since then, the contents of programs on the Beeb, all of them financed by a hefty license fee extorted from British subjects on threat of imprisonment, have increasingly reflected the social attitudes, political opinions, and cultural tastes of hard-left north London nobs. During the Brexit debate, the Corporation systematically celebrated the EU and depicted Leave supporters as rubes, xenophobes, morons, and “Little Englanders.” Former BBC journalist Robin Aitken MBE, author of a book called Can We Trust the BBC?, recently complained that the BBC “doesn’t have the pulse of the country,” that it “portrays Britishness…in a negative light,” and that its slant is “quite Soviet in its intensity and its ubiquity.” In the run-up to the last general election, Boris Johnson dangled in front of voters the possibility of abolishing the BBC license fee.
Year in and year out, perhaps the only high-profile regular broadcast on the BBC that isn’t poisoned by far-left politics has been the Last Night of the Proms, the annual concert, aired live from Royal Albert Hall, at which audience members proudly wave the Union Jack and the BBC Symphony Orchestra rounds out the evening with lush, rousing arrangements of “God Save the Queen” and the traditional songs “Jerusalem,” “Land of Hope and Glory” and “Rule, Britannia.”
