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Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Sun Nov 23, 2025 9:01 pm

BBC to expand standards panel and add deputy director general after bias row
Planned overhaul of editorial guidelines committee would dilute influence of Tory board appointment Robbie Gibb

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/ ... r-bias-row

This can't be right. I kept reading that nothing could improve if "Nandy" didn't "act now". Maybe I'm naive, but forcing out the Tory DG over being unfair on Donald Trump was massive hubris.

The BBC has had Deputy DGs before and it's not as if governments haven't forced out DGs either - Milne and Dyke come to mind.

Yeah, I don't really get what happened to the DDG role. As much as anything, it was a useful stepping stone to DG, with an overview of content and finance. If you promote someone from eg Finance Director they only have a view from one side.

Tubby Isaacs wrote:Yeah, I don't really get what happened to the DDG role.

An efficiency saving, no doubt.