Outside the system
Author: Patrick Howse
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The BBC’s Dangerous Attempt to Balance Truth With Lies
When you have one side lying and the other side trying to tell the truth, the BBC’s misguided approach to balance inevitably favours the liar, argues former BBC reporter and producer Patrick Howse
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The BBC Is Just Nodding Along
The corporation’s news coverage has lost its soul as a bulwark against unaccountable power and extremism, writes a former BBC News producer
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‘The BBC’s Ill-Conceived Cuts Sacrifice Journalists In Order To Save Managers’
The BBC is sacking journalists whilst leaving layers of largely superfluous and expensive management in place, argues former BBC reporter Patrick Howse
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How the BBC’s Flawed Approach to Impartiality Scuppered a Podcast About a Heating System
Former BBC producer and reporter Patrick Howse explores the latest worrying sign of the corporation’s approach to subjects it deems politically controversial
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Germany’s Political and Cultural Establishment Prepares to Stand Up to Putin and His Allies
As Germany rearms, Patrick Howse visits the eastern state of Saxony, where the country’s cultural elite are now also taking on Putin
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How the BBC’s Flawed Impartiality Scuppered a Podcast About a Heating System
Former BBC producer and reporter Patrick Howse explores the latest worrying sign of the BBC’s flawed interpretation of ‘impartiality’
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Will Labour Restore the BBC to the National Broadcaster We Need It To Be – Or Believe It Can Benefit from a Subservient Corporation Afraid to Hold Power to Account?
Starmer’s Government has an opportunity to reverse years of Conservative attacks on impartiality and independence – our democracy requires it to act beyond narrow party interests, former BBC producer and journalist Patrick Howse writes
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‘BBC Hopes to Remind Viewers of its Tradition of Authoritative Journalism By Having Clive Myrie Join Laura Kuenssberg for its Election Night Coverage’
Having a figure such as Kuenssberg in such a prominent position during the upheavals of the past 14 years helped the BBC appease its implacable Conservative enemies, writes former BBC producer and journalist Patrick Howse
