Robin Aitken: How the BBC became the voice of the progressive elite

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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News, Society & Culture, Government, Politics

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Robin Aitken – former BBC journalist and author of The Noble Liar – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Robin and Brendan discuss the BBC’s abandonment of objectivity, the activist capture of the newsroom and why this still matters in the internet era. New episodes every Thursday. Get a signed copy of Vibe Shift, Brendan O’Neill’s new book: https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/12/09/introducing-vibe-shift-by-brendan-oneill/ Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Being evil queen has never been so fun.
0:03.0	And I am willing to do anything.
0:06.0	We will soon be at war.
0:07.7	You will have to take a side.
0:09.0	War with the Protestants.
0:10.3	What fun.
0:11.5	Or war with the Catholics.
0:12.9	None of us are safe.
0:14.4	Feels good to be bad.
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0:55.0	BBC is a self-consciously progressive organisation. It has embraced every progressive cause and it embraces those things very tightly and it will not be shifted off that agenda.
1:06.0	It's just an extraordinary spectacle of an organisation in denial trying to pretend that what a growing
1:15.6	number of people have come to see is the reality is not true and it is true.
1:21.1	They are biased.
1:22.5	They are completely contradictory.
1:25.6	You know, the boss resigns, but nothing's gone wrong. I mean, pull the other one. It's ridiculous.
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