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The snap election that turned into a Labour landslide. Catch up on the UK General Election here.
It’s probably too late to save BBC Local Radio.
“Local stations bind communities together, they’re a platform for the stories that make a town, city or county what it is. They entertain as well as inform, they combat loneliness and they provide comfort.”
Boris Johnson’s Partygate lies destroyed him, but we helped to make him.
He is a bone idle confidence trickster, a snake oil salesman masquerading as a clown, keeping you laughing so you don't notice your pockets being picked.
He has shown us who he is again and again. We have repeatedly chosen to ignore it.
Shooting itself in both feet - how the BBC deepened its own crisis.
There is nothing new about governments fighting with the BBC… What’s different this time is the changes in the way the BBC is run.
Don’t Cut BBC Local Radio - Axe EastEnders Instead.
These stations, between them, have more than 5-million listeners a week. Many never listen to any other BBC station. But these stations are to be dismantled without “our BBC” bothering to ask what we think.
“I think we need to call the bosses..”
The BBC must be seen to do this properly, reverently. It must be “appropriate”. And so far, it has been.