YOU would have thought the BBC had learned its lesson about editing with political bias.

In 2007, BBC One spliced footage to make Queen Elizabeth II appear to leave a photo shoot in a ‘huff’. After the BBC Trust investigated, the BBC One Controller resigned.

In February 2025, the BBC withdrew a documentary on Gaza after revelations that the boy star is the son of a minister from Hamas, a proscribed terrorist organisation. Ofcom sanctioned the BBC for the failure to disclose.

One of the ‘facts’ that BBC Verify confirmed is that car insurance companies are racist – citing a partisan report that had presented false data, as BBC Verify itself admitted later.

Similarly, the BBC relied on the Trades Union Congress for a loaded claim that jobs held by ethnic minorities are becoming more ‘insecure’ than those held by whites.

Meanwhile, the BBC LGBTQ desk refused and edited stories from its own reporters that might reflect badly on trans-gender ideology. For instance, it removed a paedophile’s history as a drag queen and organiser of a Pride march.

During the US general election campaign of 2024, the BBC amplified a single poll claiming that Kamala Harris would defeat Donald Trump.

In April 2025, BBC Newsnight broadcast a handpicked panel defaming Douglas Murray after he had left the building.

Then there was BBC Panorama’s belated investigation into the protests against asylum hotels during summer 2025, which degenerated into a non-white presenter claiming racism in every interaction with a concerned councillor or protester.

In November 2025, Tim Davie, then the Director General, and Deborah Turness, the head of news, quit over their failure to act on an internal finding that Panorama had (a year earlier) spliced footage to suggest that Donald Trump had encouraged the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

That’s not to mention the BBC covering up the sins and sometimes crimes of its principals: the sex offenders Jimmy Savile and Huw Edwards, for instance; and Gary Lineker, who used his platform as a football commentator to rail against Israel and other woke targets.

And now we get to June 2026. Surely the BBC had an opportunity to present a balanced view of Brexit, ten years after the referendum. At the time, its reporters demonised Brexiteers as racists and ignoramuses, and acted as the mouthpieces of the EU. Even in the years after Brexit, while the elite procrastinated about exiting the EU, and debated a second referendum, BBC Question Time featured twice as many Remainers as Brexiteers.

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