David Lloyd

You have to hand it to the BBC. Having been abused in the House of Commons, criticised by Government, convicted of 'systemic failure' by its own Complaints Unit following crazy changes in local radio, attracting over 1000 complaints and decimating audiences by 27%, they return to Ofcom to ask for more freedoms! The BBC claims it: “wants to do more local programming when more people are listening”. Actually, it really doesn't. It is struggling to meet the localness quota it si

Good parents don’t bring up their children well by just telling them off when the neighbour knocks on the door and complains about them. Regulating by complaint only - as Ofcom largely does - is a peculiar way to regulate BBC content. Not least because you have to be bloody persistent to get it to entertain a complaint in the first place. If you have an issue with the BBC, you have to complain to the BBC first and clamber over three hefty It's a Knockout hurdles before you a

I don’t know anyone who does not like or rate Tim Davie. From all I know and have heard, he’s a very decent chap who has tried to do the best he can. I hope he manages, very soon, to put his feet up at last. I cannot even begin to imagine the pressure of that job when no moment is your own and just about every weekend is disturbed by a text bluntly signalling another random major crisis. The challenges he has faced are utterly unprecedented. He is not the first to resign amid

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