The editing of Trump’s speech on Panorama was terrible journalism, says Brian Reade, but killing it off would be a grave mistake in the world we live in, and we'd be far worse off

Irony didn’t just die this week – it was hung, drawn and disembowelled. How else to describe the stream of attacks on the BBC’s integrity and honesty by people you wouldn’t let look after your cat for fear they’d nick its milk?

Boris Johnson led the charge for the Beeb’s demise by calling a badly edited clip about Donald Trump’s insurrection-inciting speech in 2021 a “scandalous fabrication”. This from a proven liar whose scandalous relationship with the truth has cost Britain dearly.

Nigel Farage loudly bemoaned the BBC’s “institutionalised left-wing bias” when its scrupulously even-handed editorial policy

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