When the BBC Director General Tim Davie resigned last weekend, he told staff as he left that the BBC was “a unique and precious organisation… I see the free press under pressure, I see the weaponisation. I think we’ve got to fight for our journalism.” The chair of the BBC later in the week wrote to the White House apologising for the editing of a President Trump speech on January 6, 2021, which was used in an episode of Panorama before the US presidential election. “The BBC has no plans to rebroadcast the documentary Trump: A Second Chance? on any…

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