We’re living in a world where our trusted sources of news are being subverted in new ways that are silent – but all the more deadly because of that. There has been, for example, over the last eight years a quiet revolution at the BBC and the old BBC Trust, which was quite independent of government, was abolished in favour of a board modelled on a business, where the senior posts have been filled by the Tories with their supporters, such as Rona Fairhead, David Clementi, the architect of the new governance, and James Harding, and senior editorial posts have gone to Tory supporters, such as Alison Fuller Pedley, who is responsible for choosing the audience for Question Time and has been packing it with Tory stooges, as last week, and Sarah Sands, ex-Telegraph and Mail, who edits R4’s Today programme, which has taken a completely supine approach to questioning Tory ministers. Liam Fox last week stated that inward investment into the UK has increased and wasn’t questioned or even challenged that, in fact, it has declined considerably since the Brexit referendum. One example is not enough to show bias – but the BBC’s output is just questionable. The selection of what is news and who is brought on to comment on it has also been skewed, so that Labour Party alleged antisemitism is paraded all the time, but Islamaphobia and racism in the Tory Party is never mentioned, and last week we had the presence of a representative of the so-called Taxpayers’ Alliance, which is, to say the least, a shadowy organisation funded opaquely. I suppose it made a change from Nigel Farage.