I imagine that quite a few of us have had our eye on the Guardian and especially the BBC for quite a while now, and on their tandem act of both ignoring and T-washing news stories. I wonder if they influence each other? I can imagine BBC employees taking the Guardian as their paper of choice.
Putting Lisa Nandy in charge of culture, media and sport was a backwards step, in my personal opinion, as despite her politics degree she simply doesn't have the ability to see the big picture.
I had got as far as writing to the Chair of the Select Committee earlier in the year (Caroline Dinenage, Con.) about whether or not the committee were minded to examine BBC bias, but didn't receive a reply to that by the time the election was called. The new Select Committee Chair and members are yet to be appointed. But I'll write to the Chair once the name is available.
Any shift from the Guardian is interesting. I wonder if they've lost readers over their 'gender woo' approach, now the court cases, tribunals and inquiries are starting to take lumps out of the ideology? I frequently get the begging pop-ups when I'm looking at articles, but I'm not actually paying them money given the pile of dangerous crap they've produced over the last few years.
Anyway, once again well done to James Esses on this very important result, and for keeping his head and his humanity while all around were losing theirs.