THE BBC’s new director-general Tim Davie last week summarily cancelled the The Mash Report, a programme which satirises the week’s news. As The Mash Report has been running regularly since 2017, one must suppose it generated sufficient audience interest on BBC Two to warrant broadcasting it.However, Mr Davie’s motivation in dropping the show was not professional but political. According to The Sun newspaper, “sources close” to Davie – doubtless Davie himself – told them that the BBC’s entire satire output (including Have I Got News for You) required radical overhaul as it was too biased against the Tories and Brexit.