In July, the UK Culture Secretary lashed out at the BBC, calling for heads to roll over a series of scandals and saying she was “exasperated” over the slow pace of its review into a botched Gaza documentary.

Three months on, Lisa Nandy used an RTS Cambridge keynote to call the 100-year-old broadcaster “a light on the hill for people here and across the world, and the best defence against the tide of toxic populism.”

While these quotes require a few dollops of context, Nandy’s near-sycophantic praise neatly represents her shifting tone towards the BBC. Over the summer, she had landed herself in some trouble after her repeated attacks on Director General Tim Davie led some to accuse her of jeopardizing the corporation’s independence and of “overreach.”

But Nandy swinging in behind t

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