Least trusted / most trusted news source

Never let it be said that I never agree with you because I do here for once.

14% thinking the BBC is unbiased is really not good enough for a publicly funded public broadcaster. The fact that it is far less biased than the likes of GB News is beside the point. We are not expected to pay for the latter.

Fact is that both left and right can legitimately identify BBC bias. For one thing is it is utterly establishmentarian which includes the economic status quo. This gives it a marked right wing bias, albeit with an occasional liberal empathy for the poor, on economic issues. We on the left saw how biased against us the BBC was when we challenged the economic status quo from the left.

And yet its very establishmentarianism made it biased in favour of Remainers and the EU. And it is absolutely and totally socially liberal on identity politics issues in a way that makes it automatically biased towards the left in this area.

If we step out of our own ideological boxes and look at it neutrally, we can see this.

People on the left can see that the BBC is biased against them because on many socio-economic issues it is. But people on the right can see many other areas where the BBC is biased against them. It is nowhere near as neutral and unbiased on any of these issues re either left or right as it ought to be.