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Hello and welcome to Spectator Outloud. Every week, a few of our writers read out their pieces in the magazine.

This week we're going to be joined by Douglas Murray, who talks about how right-wing candidates can be life-changing for the BBC and other public institutions.

We also hear from Sam Leith in defence of wokeness. Meanwhile, Melissa Kite defends a fly tipping

and at the very end Toby Young on why Lawrence Fox's new political party is a good idea.

First, Douglas Murray. A beautiful noise rang out last week in the wake of the news that the government

is considering Charles Moore to become the new chairman of the BBC and Paul Dacre to be the head of the broadcasting watchdog offcom.

The noise was the sound of the British left wailing that toys they thought were theirs alone might now, under a conservative government, finally go to

identifiable conservatives. The former editor of The Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, shrieked that

this is what an oligarchy looks like. This and similar tweets were presumably sent from the lodgings of the Oxford College

that Rusbridger was made principal of five years ago. Others who screamed themselves sick included

BBC employees who briefed that Moore's appointment would shatter morale. people will leave. For there can be no greater

way to refute accusations of institutional leftism in the BBC than for the corporation's

employees to threaten to resign en masse in response to a conservative appointment. Elsewhere,

have I got news for you,

tweeted out that this would be the end for the BBC,

which is as funny a joke as that show has mustered in the present century.

Of course, there is no certainty more or Dacre will take up either job,

and even less certainty that if they do so,

they will be able to turn around the relevant organisations.

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