Blain’s Morning Porridge Nov 12th 2025 - BBCCrisis is a Disaster for the UK

“I would die in a ditch for the impartiality of the BBC.”

The BBC is/was the world’s most trusted broadcaster. It’simpartiality stood above the fake news and politicised opinion presented as irrefuttable facts pumped out by private channels. It was held to the highest standards, and when it’s seen to have slipped – as has happened – suddenly there is no stopping a tidal wave of manufactured shock and fury flooding the media space.

What has the Crisis at the BBC got to do with markets? Muchmore than you might think.

 Panorama-gate is shaping up to be on the major inflexionpoints in the UK’s long spiralling decline. The editing of Trump’s January 6th insurrection speech on a Panorama programme was ham-fisted and wrong. It looks like a clear breach of the BBC’s credo of truth and impartiality. There are multiplelevels of pain in terms of what this means for the UK.

 And, if the BBC is now broken – what now stands in the wayof fake news, media manipulation and propaganda dominating our lives?

 Let’s start with why does this matter for the UK: