Trump’s War on the BBC Is Working

The U.S. government has pushed the legendary broadcaster into a nervous breakdown.

The signage outside Broadcasting House is seen through the viewfinder of a broadcast camera on Nov. 10, 2025 in London. November 14, 2025, 12:31 PM Comment icon View Comments ( )

What do you call an organization that over the past two decades has seen a string of recent chief executives leave under a cloud? Dysfunctional? The best way I describe the BBC—a broadcaster I have worked for, contribute to, and in which I have many friends and colleagues—is that it is in a permanent nervous breakdown. For as long as I have known it, it has been both a wonder for the world and a mess.

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