Opinion: To Be Impartial the BBC Must Change Its Relationship to Britain’s Billionaire-owned Newspapers

As someone born in Britain the BBC is one of the institutions I am most proud of, writes Aaron Bastani, but it could be so much better, offering a genuine counterweight to a billionaire class intent on rigging the country’s democratic process. It won’t do that, and live up to its own charter, until it re-thinks its relationship to the rightwing press.