Apparently Rishi Sunak has lofty ambitions for media impartiality (Downing Road denies having an anti-BBC agenda after accusations of bias, January 22). When he says that “all components of the media business must be topic to the identical guidelines of impartiality”, does he embrace the Solar, the Categorical, the Each day Telegraph and GB Information? And would he apply the identical impartiality guidelines to his Tradition Secretary, Lucy Frazer, when she says that “the general public feels impartiality and the BBC is on a downward trajectory”? In response to a 2023 College of Oxford survey, the BBC stays the preferred information supply for each Conservative and Labor voters, and for each depart and stay voters. I could also be biased, however I feel this can be a breathtaking achievement in our polarized society.
Peter Grimsdale
Former BBC and Channel 4 editor-in-chief
Huw Merriman fails to know the essence of satire – it mocks these in energy, not these with out energy (BBC Radio 4 information quiz is ‘utterly biased’, minister claims, January 23). If Conservative ministers do not need to be continuously castigated, there may be a simple answer: name a common election and be voted out.
Neil Cole
Heaven Hempstead, Hertfordshire