Nick Wallis - absolutely fascinating interview

Such a good motto - I only heard it for the first time this week and I’ve used it at least twice a day since!

Absolutely brilliant interview!

Loved the shout out to MN

and fascinating account of cornering the DG of the BBC at a party

as Nick says, KBO

That was an hour well-spent, thank you.

Inconvenient, I suppose.

The BBC have been appalling for a long time. Remember I Am Leo on CBBC? That was first aired in 2014, a few years after the Savile case finally exploded.

I'd love to know what they think safeguarding actually is.

I've got to say I really don't miss the BBC at all. And I definitely don't miss Cbeebies or CBBC - their children's programmes have really dropped the ball on safeguarding children and some of them are actively dangerous.

The days of assuming that because it was BBC it was probably fine are far behind me. Now, if anything, I assume the opposite.

They haven't changed much IMO since they covered up for Savile.

Yes, me too. I no longer pay my tv license nor watch BBC programmes. I occasionally listen to the radio (and end up shouting at it wondering what they're lying about now or the casual misogyny or anti-safeguarding bias).

It's the Sal Grover quote isn't it:

"If you think that women have penises, I won’t believe a single word you say about anything else. Because if you will lie about something so obvious, I will assume you lie about everything."

Thank you for highlighting this, have just listened to the first 2 episodes. So heartened by Nick, he’s a brilliant journalist. Who wished he’d said something sooner, fair play to him.

Also I was so interested in the talk about what in this story would make a good dramatisation. And how the arts will find this madness so difficult to row back on!

Excellent interview. Such a clear thinker and so articulate, as well as such a good sort.

Loved this podcast!
Also this one
https://linktr.ee/incitefulsisters

Agree- I like IH too but can't help thinking it only becomes important when a middle aged posh white man tells us it is, not a moment before.

Edited to add: can anyone think of a time he's admitted he was wrong? He seemed furious when he got grief for HIGNFY making Boris a celebrity.... which they did. His response was 'we have all sorts on' and gave the example of Ken livingstone. Who was pilloried on there (I don't have a problem with that!) while Boris was indulged and treated with visible affection.

I sort of still love the BBC but I don't trust it now. The scandal of its handling of genderism has revealed to me that:

• the BBC has its own agendas
• in pursuing them it will mislead the public
• it prioritises the wants of certain of its own staff over its duty to the public
• when this became apparent it either didn't care or it moved into gaslighting mode.

Yes I strongly support a state broadcaster that at least attempts impartiality, or I used to.

Biggest media organisation in.the world, isnt it?

Took them long enough though.

I’m a very loyal PE subscriber; I was reading my Dad’s copies in my teenage years and carried on buying it.

But I’ve not enjoyed seeing how strenuously they’ve looked the other way on women’s rights over the last many years. Nor forgotten Hislop’s dismissal of the issue as ‘culture wars.’

They’ve got a bit better over the last 6-8 months, with the odd pointed joke, but on the few occasions they’ve addressed it, (in an article), it’s rarely given more than a brief aside. They should have been much more curious.

Not listened to it yet but am very pleased when people recognise this, shows they really get it.

The interesting thing with trust and the BBC is that since they've shown their cowardice on an issue I do know about, I'm completely doubting their output on everything else. I'm sure I'm not the only one. And its beyond the usual check for bias of wondering what's being skimmed over in an article - its the fact they've refused to publish at all in many cases.

I also really liked the interview.

i was interested in his comments that the BBC are at serious risk of ruining their credibility but they don’t yet understand that. And like the Post Office he’s worried they’ll leave it too late to fix. I wonder if we should write by snail mail to the DG to explain that normal people have lost trust in them?

Just listened to that. Bloody brilliant. He was so articulate - and he mentioned Mumsnet, so big thumbs up there.

What this whole bloody shambles has shown me is that, despite all these years of feminism, equality, the vote etc etc, there is so much misogyny roaming free in society - not just here, but everywhere. Woman puts head above parapet, head is promptly shot off. Man puts head above identical parapet, well, he's a man...

Yep. And I've lost respect for so many over this.

They won't listen to evidence or reason when it comes from ordinary women, but they'll listen if it comes from the mouth of a posh chap.

How can they be baffled?!?!? Is it because our voices are so high fucking pitched?!

I've only just started listening to this episode, having found the first one on the BBC fascinating. I was already following Nick Wallis on Twitter and am really looking forward to listening to the rest of the podcast.

Oh hello!

Bloody hell. I wasn't expecting that! 😃

Sorry to lower the tone! - but I’ve just seen Nick’s picture on Twitter. He’s a handsome chap, isn’t he? As well as being a fine journalist.

Interesting how they studiously avoid any pronouns at all for Watson.