By Suella Braverman

The warning signs have been flashing for years.

The BBC’s decline has not come suddenly but through a slow, painful unravelling: crisis after crisis, apology after apology, each followed by a review, an inquiry, a promise to “learn lessons”.

And yet, the same patterns repeat. More blunders. More blind spots. A once-great institution, now lumbering from one self-inflicted scandal to the next.

Of course, the British public still finds comfort in Strictly and The Traitors, amongst other entertainment. And there remain fine journalists whose integrity is beyond question. But affection for the BBC’s past cannot obscure the need for a sober reckoning with its present. In a global media market where competition is ruthless and credibility is everything, we must now ask, without sentimentality: is the BBC still fit for purpose?

The answer, regrettably, is no.

For years, its leadership has denied what has become obvious to almost everyone else - that the Corporation has an institutional bias so deep it can no longer perceive it. The latest scandal,........

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