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LGBT charity Stonewall condemned a BBC local radio station yesterday for asking its listeners whether so-called gay “conversion therapy” is acceptable.
BBC Radio Kent asked its followers on Twitter whether the practice, which can involve using hypnosis and electric shocks to “cure” homosexuality, was acceptable, despite it having been widely discredited as unethical.
GP Ranj Singh, who is the resident doctor on ITV’s This Morning programme, told the BBC Breakfast show that the “therapy” was akin to psychological abuse and should be made illegal.
On January 2 2014, PJ Harvey used her turn as guest editor of the Today programme to expose the realities of war, arms dealing and media complicity. The fury that followed showed how rare – and how threatening – such honesty is within Britain’s most Establishment broadcaster, says IAN SINCLAIR
Despite declining to show Kneecap’s set, the BBC broadcast Bob Vylan leading a ‘death to the IDF’ chant — and the resulting outrage has only amplified the very message the Establishment wanted silenced, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
