Britain without the BBC

It's being reported this morning that the BBC has commissioned a review into the relationship between the BBC and the BBC Trust.

The Corporation quite often does this sort of thing.  In 2012 it asked for a review into its handling of the immigration issue from ex ITV CEO Stuart Prebble.  The review came to the conclusion that the BBC had a "deep liberal bias". It thus cost £175,000 to find out something anyone with two eyes and ears could have told them for nothing.

So what does the BBC do when it turns out that it's been wasting millions of licence-fee payers' money overpaying departing staff?  Answer, it wastes hundreds of thousands in further navel gazing.  Across the Corporation more lowly staff must be reduced to scratching their heads, having of course torn all their hair out over the last few weeks.

Meanwhile the BBC leadership sails blithely, on unaware that, having done its best to cast the Corporation's reputation down with its nest-feathering profligacy, it is now dancing blindly around, trampling it into the mud.

I am with Allison Pearson, who writes in the Torygraph this morning, "I have no desire to live in a Britain without the BBC.  At the end of this unedifying week, that terrible prospect has come a little closer".