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NIGEL Farage yesterday pledged to gut BBC funding if he gets into power.
The Ukip leader accused the broadcaster of bias and trying to scupper his party’s election hopes after he was not invited to take part in Thursday’s question time debate alongside David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband.
None of the other smaller parties were invited to attend the leaders’ debate but Mr Farage appears to have taken his omission as a personal slight.
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
JAMES NALTON takes a look at the German league’s move to grow its audience in Britain, and around the future of football on TV in general
While Spode quit politics after inheriting an earldom, Farage combines MP duties with selling columns, gin, and even video messages — proving reality produces more shameless characters than PG Wodehouse imagined, writes STEPHEN ARNELL
