By Lord Walney

Something is deeply wrong at the BBC.

The leaked dossier from Michael Prescott, a respected former journalist and adviser to the corporation on editorial standards, lays bare systemic bias on key issues - and an ostrich-like attitude from its leaders that may prove fatal if a future government is less sympathetic.

I say this without the glee or determination to do the BBC down that sometimes colours attacks on the institution from the right of British politics, whose principled opposition to its funding model can sometimes spill into outright hostility.

As a former journalist and spokesman for then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown, I have long looked up to the BBC and revered the place in public life it is supposed to hold. At its best, our national broadcaster is a vital bulwark of democracy: a public institution deserving of trust and independence from short-term political convenience.

That is why the revelations contained in the leaked dossier uncovered by The Telegraph are so........

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