The BBC’s ‘Two Tier’ Journalism Boosting Reform and the Far-Right

Why is our national broadcaster giving so much oxygen to the racist fantasies of the far-right?

Last year I revealed the BBC’s plans to alter its “story selection” in order to win over the “trust” of Reform voters.

All the evidence from this week suggests that this plan has now been fully implemented.

As Nigel Farage called for “pure cold rage” on the streets of Britain, and far-right thugs responded by lighting fires and assaulting police officers in Southampton, our national broadcaster has also stepped into line.

Across a series of on-air discussions and articles, the BBC sought to examine and “debate” Farage’s claims of institutionalised anti-white “two tier policing” in the UK.

To be clear these claims are completely without evidence.

As official figures and external inquiries have repeatedly shown, if there is “two tier policing” in the UK then it is non-white people who are firmly in the second tier.

Three years ago the Baroness Casey inquiry found overwhelming evidence of institutional racism towards non-white people in the Metropolitan police, whilst in Hampshire, where Henry Nowak was murdered, official statistics show that the police are over five times more likely to stop and search black people than white people.

On every measure it is overwhelmingly clear that non-whites are much more likely to be stopped, detained, disbelieved and mistreated by British police officers than white people.

Yet out national broadcaster has spent the entire week giving oxygen to the far-right fantasy that the complete opposite is the case.

So what is really going on here, and why is the BBC playing right into Nigel Farage’s hands?

Here’s what I think is going on.