Donald Macintyre's sketch: MP attacks the Beeb's panel of 'piranhas'
The main worry about Chris Bryant’s approach to the BBC is what he’ll have left to say if it really is dismembered. On Thursday his prose was not so much purple as a lush, glossy, pomegranate. The Corporation, the Shadow Culture Secretary told MPs, was not just “a beacon of accuracy and impartiality around the world”, or “part of the national furniture”. It was “a miracle of constitutional engineering… the cornerstone of our creative industries, earning respect and money for Britain and British values.” Above all it was “our cultural NHS”.