This March 18 Op-Ed by CAMERA’s Hadar Sela appeared in The Jewish Chronicle.
The outgoing BBC director general Tim Davie recently had an article published by The Times under the headline “Unshackle the BBC from the politics of charter renewal”.
In the piece he promotes the corporation’s response to the Green Paper published by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in December 2025 as part of its review of the current BBC Royal Charter.
The proposals put forward in the BBC’s response included an end to the ten-year time frame of the Charter, changes to appointments to the board overseeing the BBC and the resumption of full government funding of the BBC World Service.
Remarkably, the 100-page response included little introspection and failed to address any of the issues that led to the resignations of Davie and the BBC’s CEO of News four months ago – or which have prompted more and more members of the British public to stop paying the licence fee
Read the rest of Hadar Sela’s Op-Ed in The Jewish Chronicle.