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Boris Johnson s government has told the BBC to extol the virtues of British values – but are they really something to be proud of? LAST evening I was chatting to BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner for an Aye Write event and, inevitably, we got on to the current crisis at his employers. He told me that what most frustrated people like himself, and other time-served correspondents and reporters, was that the public might fail to distinguish between the reporter involved in the Diana Panorama programme and the contrasting rigour applied by most BBC employees. As he said, despite being shot and partially paralysed by Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia 17 years ago, he still reported on them and on Daesh because he was paid to explain what was happening, not to judge it. (We agreed later in offline conversation that re-hiring the Panorama reporter in question just five years ago was, at best, a baffling management decision.)
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