The BBC is in the headlines again – for all the wrong reasons. A TV drama on the fall of Huw Edwards, the corporation’s disgraced former chief news presenter, is due to start tonight. Rather than keep shtum, Edwards has lashed out at Channel 5 for failing to ‘check with me the truth’, thus ensuring even more bad publicity for the BBC. Yet instead of donning sackcloth and ashes in an effort to atone for its many flaws and follies, the BBC is doubling down on its sins by appointing a new director general who offers more of the same. The appointment of ex-Google boss Matt Brittin as Tim Davie’s successor shows that the Beeb is pretending it’s business as usual, when only a radical overhaul can save the Corporation.

Far less attention has been paid to another aspect of Brittin’s glittering career

Far less attention has been paid to another aspect of Brittin’s glittering career

It’s true that Brittin has an impressive CV. He’s a former Great Britain World Rowing champion. And Brittin worked his way up to become president of Google in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. It is this latter experience at the sharp end of the ongoing technological revolution that is being trumpeted by the Beeb........

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