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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has announced plans to layoff 450 people across its English workforce as part of a wider cost-cutting effort, just days after pledging to spend $124 million on “diverse” content aimed at appeasing the far-left Black Lives Matter movement.

Researchers are warning of new flu strain found among pigs in China, noting that it carries a global pandemic potential, as it could infect humans.

According to BBC rural affairs programme Countryfile, “many Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups see the countryside as being a white environment.”

The publicly-funded British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is ploughing £100 million into increasing “diverse and inclusive content” in response to the Black Lives Matter unrest in Britain and the wider West.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said that he is not “the least bit surprised” by a poll which found that trust in the mainstream media, notably the BBC, has dramatically fallen amongst people on the left and right of the political spectrum.

A late 2018 analysis by a Wikipedia editor, banned from the site at the time due to criticism of political bias, showed left-wing British outlet the Guardian was the third most-cited news source on the online encyclopedia after the New York Times and the BBC, in many cases to make negative claims about President  Donald Trump and other conservatives. Most of the top-cited news sources on Wikipedia are establishment left-leaning news outlets. Conservative outlets are disfavored by Wikipedia editors who cite the site’s standards for “reliable sources” with some outlets, including Breitbart, formally banned.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has declared “humour is dead” after a BBC-controlled network removed an episode of the cult 1970s series Fawlty Towers because it was deemed racist and contained “outdated language”. The BBC-controlled UKTV streaming service announced on

Tens of thousands of people have joined a campaign the defund the UK’s public-funded broadcaster as the backlash grows against the media outlet’s supposedly ‘impartial’ reporting.

The BBC has announced that it has employed a high-level bias-checker to ensure that the taxpayer-funded broadcaster appears impartial on social media. The announcement comes after public outcry following a news programme airing a politically-biased monologue.

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — The Premier League plans to restart on June 17 after a 100-day shutdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic, with new staggered kickoff times to make sure every game can be shown on TV as fans are prevented from attending games.

After a number of complaints over this blatantly biased political commentary, the BBC has issued a mealy-mouthed semi-apology.

BBC anchor Emily Maitlis has not apologised for a rant against Dominic Cummings which the broadcaster admits broke the rules on impartiality.

The BBC will replace Emily Maitlis on Wednesday’s edition of Newsnight after the anchor took to the nation’s airwaves to denounce Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s chief advisor Dominic Cummings in what has been ruled as a clear demonstration of bias.

Across the world the mainstream media are dying a death. Just look at the latest newspaper circulation figures from the United Kingdom.

Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is set to receive just 30 new ventilators to combat the growing coronavirus crisis at the weekend, according to reports. It is expected to need 30,000.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) said that it is considering scrapping its court-enforced licence fee funding mechanism, in favour of attaching a tax on citizens’ broadband connections.

A retired supreme court judge has sounded a clearest warning over the threat to the freedom by overenthusiastic police over coronavirus.

Culture secretary Oliver Dowden has said that the BBC must abandon its “narrow urban outlook” and be sure to provide “genuine diversity of thought and experience” if it wants to survive.

The most nauseating phrase in the English language is “I’m not against free speech but…”

Extinction Rebellion, the eco-fascist protest group, successfully duped the BBC into believing miners support its campaigns to shut mines.

A major survey of the British television industry has found that, contrary to popular belief among “woke” commentators, gay people and ethnic minorities are massively overrepresented.

‘Woke’ is not a dirty word but a moral duty, says a senior BBC editor, defending the corporation’s decision to ‘repurpose’ classic novels.

Deciding to have children in the First World supports slavery, according to a BBC Three segment pushed on social media.

Former Conservative MP Michael Portillo has said that the BBC will not survive in its current TV tax-funded model, comparing it to a “polar bear on a receding piece of ice”.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has doubled down on its publication of a poem describing the “struggles of getting a haircut as a non-binary person”, warning that critics have been “reported”.

Greta Thunberg’s life story and that of her family is “raw and powerful” according to the publisher of a new book about the teenage Swedish climate worrier.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reportedly backing the softer option of “reforming” the BBC, putting him at odds with his senior advisor, the conservative revolutionary Dominic Cummings, who is leading the charge for scrapping the mandatory TV tax in favour of a consumer-based subscription.

Nearly 200,000 Britons have cancelled their television licence in one year, a report has revealed, while several Tories have called on Downing Street to stop its “vendetta” against the BBC by proposing that the broadcaster earn its own money.

Boris Johnson’s administration may be serious about taking on the BBC, with sources revealing plans to scrap the compulsory television licence which funds it.

BBC Studios’ Science Unit announced Monday it is working on a new series fronted by Swedish environmentalist Greta Thunberg in an effort to both tell her life story and chronicle her global travels.

Culture secretary Nicky Morgan has warned that the BBC could go the way of Blockbuster — becoming a total irrelevancy and going bust — unless it evolves.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) marked Brexit Day with a “special” programme for children pouring scorn on British history and claiming “British things” don’t exist.

Former President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker has said he “didn’t like” Boris Johnson during the EU referendum, but that he is a “fair negotiator” and not “a 100 per cent liar”.

Johnson announced he would be addressing the public directly on Brexit day through the medium of social, rather than the mainstream media. 

The BBC has announced that it will cut 450 jobs from its news division, as well as scaling back the number of stories covered in an effort to save £80 million by 2022.

The head of one of Britain’s leading management bodies has urged businesses to crack down on men talking about sports such as soccer and cricket because it leads to the promotion of lad culture women feeling “left out.”