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URL copied to clipboard The headlines are all too familiar. The BBC has been exposed as having deeply unsatisfactory internal processes for investigating problems. Rival media organisations gloat over the inadequacies. Loyal BBC employees squirm with embarrassment. We have seen it all before. The issue this time is the notorious interview with Princess Diana 25 years ago, conducted by Martin Bashir, a junior reporter on the BBC’s flagship weekly current affairs programme, Panorama. The interview attracted 23 million viewers. But a retired Supreme Court judge, Lord Dyson, has just issued...

The BBC has been prone to crises throughout its history, and it has the ability to survive them and even emerge stronger. But it is now facing one of its greatest ever tests after the coruscating findings of the Dyson report into its  Panorama interview with Princess Diana in 1995. Never before has the corporation been condemned so eloquently by a future king, who has said his mother was “failed” by BBC bosses “who looked the other way rather than asking the tough questions”. “It’s hard to see how this could have been worse,” says one longstanding editor. This story is fi...

JUST like all independence supporters, I was delighted with the result on May 6. Not having a majority is a disappointment but not being able to get Fergus Mutch over the winning line in Aberdeenshire West was for me a personal scunner and heartbreak. Having been an activist on Deeside for 30 years I’m well aware of how difficult his fight was, and when we look at the obvious tactics between the Unionist parties, Fergus did exceedingly well to garner a huge SNP vote. I found it hard, post-election, to listen to Anas Sarwar and indeed Douglas Ross (now of two parliamentary posts, which h...

Have you ever wondered why Blair Howard and Bush have ALL written their "autobiography"?... One could suspect a collusion. And there is. It is a well orchestrated way to frame the debate about the Iraq war in a sea of other titillating subjects — including the foetus of George W Bush's unborn sibling his mother kept in a pickle jar or the sexual celebration of Blair's political victory, with Cherie. Like in a well tuned orchestra, Blair, Howard and Bush, all play an Iraq tune, with counterpoints and slightly different notes BUT IN HARMONY... The theme tune of the song is that "Saddam deserv...

THE Salmond versus Sturgeon uncivil war currently raging in Committee Room One of the Scottish Parliament will move closer to its denouement when…