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.

It's true that the BBC was never an impartial organisation. It has done the state's bidding, and blacklisted radicals, from the beginning. But it never possessed the self-immolatory character it has now. How did it happen? Appeasement.