As a BBC News journalist who has been driven to distraction by the corporation’s repeated displays of apparent bias, I didn’t think I was capable of being shocked anymore. It turns out I was wrong. Reading The Telegraph ’s revelations about serious editorial lapses within BBC News was utterly sobering.

As I digested the information contained within a leaked internal memo, a range of now familiar emotions washed over me – dismay, disappointment, anger, sadness – but also a sense of vindication, albeit rather hollow. What originally prompted me to start writing articles in this publication back in 2021, criticising the BBC’s one-sided coverage of the pandemic, was deep frustration that my concerns over impartiality were either ignored or derided when I raised them in-house. The leaked

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