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Thank you Paul for this. 

 Without a doubt Charles Moore does sometimes come up with the goods.   Although on the other hand some of his recent articles have been inconclusive;  a bit like Olly Leftwing;  "On the one hand or on the other", never knowing if he has come to a conclusion at all, and of course those two were at Eton together.

As you probably know from the unkind postings we have been sending to the BBC they are unreformable as they stand.  Having recruited by their own admission exclusively from the Guardian for the last 40 years and having put themselves into total hock with the EU, not least by obtaining highly favourable loans from the European Investment Bank, which always has carried the caveat you only get the loan provided you always promote the EU(SSR), there is only one possible solution:  quite simply sack the whole damn shebang but offer to re-employ those under strict criteria and throw the employment open to all who might wish to apply.

In our personal experience the one bright light was when Rod Liddle was editor of the Today programme on R4.  He took the trouble to meet and talk to those who were critical and over a dinner with us and Peter Watson, we found we had much in common.  But of course Rod had to be sacked;  he had an open mind.  Going back further to the '75 one and only referendum there were BBC personnel who had contrary opinions, such as Alvar Leddell and Jack de Manio who under traitor Ted's edicts had to be sacked.

If back in 1975 there was political control of the BBC, a government with guts could again impose the original tenets of the BBC to be impartial, as envisaged by Lord Reith and take the necessary steps but not under this wishy-washy lot will it happen.

Dear Bill and Ann,

I just had to reproduce this from Charles Moore's Spectator Notes 23.6.12:

In the Tintin books, there are Thompson and Thomson.  So it is with the

BBC.  Mark Thompson is the Director General and Caroline Thomson is

the Chief Operating Officer.  

The latter now seeks the former's job.  

It is impossible not to laugh at the perfection of Miss (?) Thomson's pedigree.

Her father, Lord Thomson of Monifeith, was a Labour Minister, a

European Commissioner and a television duopoly mogul.  Her husband,

Lord (Roger) Liddle, was a special advisor to the Labour Minister and

founder of the SDP, Bill Rodgers, and was later a special advisor on 

European Affairs to Tony Blair and then a member of Peter Mandleson's

cabinet at the European Commission.  

Miss Thomson herself was adviser to Roy Jenkins, when he led the Social Democrats in1983.  The chief 

selector for the post of DG is Lord Patten of Barnes, the new Chairman

of the BBC Trust and the most pro-EU of all senior Tories and a former

Commissioner in Brussels. 

 It must be almost irresistible for this ancient

regime to go on appointing its own members....like the Soviet Politburo

in the 1970s.

Regards, Paul.