We should never underestimate the extent to which the BBC changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage, other far right extremists and the Tufton Street junktanks, while shutting out progressive voices. 🧵

Yes, it's hard to imagine that the BBC once broadcast The Brains Trust.

This is exactly what happened to the mainstream media in the U.S.

It’s why I ended a lifetime’s habit of listening to the BBC

Sadly progressives have moved towards the far right on a lot of issues. So far that though they think they’re progressive, they really aren’t. Horseshoe theory is now fact.

Surely nothing to do with senior people being got at with kompromat that Putin has been building for years. It's really simple when someone is willing to play the long game.

As intended, now ITV have joined the machine to make a Fascist acceptable.

"An Appeaser Is One Who Feeds a Crocodile, Hoping It Will Eat Him Last" [not exactly what Churchill said, but close enough]

You might wonder what its game is: after all, they all profess to hate the BBC and want to defund it. But I've seen this organisation change beyond recognition since I stopped working for it, 36 years ago.

Just like CNN did in the US with Trump in 2016. Basically provided $millions worth of free ad spend by breathlessly endlessly uncritically covering the fascist clown traitor. I’d argue they got him elected (tho not the popular vote).

Disappointing