In April 2024, Tim Davie — the BBC director general who resigned on Sunday — was dealing with yet another crisis at the U.K.’s national broadcaster. Its top news anchor, Huw Edwards, had just resigned in disgrace following a 10-month suspension after it emerged he had paid a teenager for sexually explicit photographs. What few people aside from Davie knew at the time was that Edwards had been arrested and was facing prison for an unrelated and even more serious offense: accessing photographs of young children being sexually abused. Davie had in fact been informed of Edwards’ arrest six months earlier and yet continued to pay the news anchor’s $631,000 salary throughout Edwards’ suspension and even as he awaited trial. (Edwards, who pleaded guilty, was sentenced to a six month susp

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