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

🗓️ 12 November 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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0:44.0	The BBC is a self-consciously progressive organization. It has embraced every progressive cause and it embraces those things very tightly
0:58.0	and it will not be shifted off that agenda. It's just an extraordinary spectacle of an
1:03.7	organisation in denial trying to pretend that what a growing number of people have come to see is the reality is not
1:14.2	true.
1:15.2	And it is true.
1:16.2	They are biased.
1:17.5	They are completely contradictory.
1:20.7	You know, the boss resigns, but nothing's gone wrong.
1:24.5	I mean, pull the other one.
1:26.2	It's ridiculous.
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