JOE BESWICK of the London Renters Union talks to the Morning Star’s new Left on Record programme
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The BBC’s elitism problem
Auntie’s offices are still packed to the rafters with private school-educated appointees, says STEPHEN ARNELL
BBC Broadcasting House in London. Picture date: Tuesday January 21, 2020
The unnecessarily violent police intervention at a Quaker place of worship is a PR disaster and will only serve to deepen the chasm between them and the public. SYMON HILL reports
ANDREW MURRAY wonders whether recent opinion polling and a fresh local authority by-election result in Ilford are an indication that the time is ripe for the left to make inroads
Due to the actions of this government, the challenges facing those with disabilities, such as spinal cord injuries, are nigh on insurmountable, argus RUTH HUNT
General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
DATA taken from Independent Schools Council’s 2023 census records 554,316 pupils currently attending private schools in the UK, around 5.9 per cent of all school attendees in the country.
Privately educated BBC staff now occupy at least a third of Auntie’s highest-paid posts, including ex-Tory council candidate director-general Tim Davie and chief content officer Charlotte Moore.
Davie attended Croydon’s elite Whitgift School, while Moore boarded at Grade II listed Wycombe Abbey, an independent girls’ boarding school in Buckinghamshire.
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