BBC blasted over Sir Brian’s ‘partisan’ badger doc

The Beeb is developing a habit of being the news rather than making it – and the upcoming release of Sir Brian May’s badger documentary this Friday is no exception. The public service broadcaster has been slammed for allowing a BBC 2 programme to air after it emerged that the Queen guitarist will this week release a tell-all about badger culling. In the show, the longtime animal rights activist will attempt to make the argument that killing badgers to stop the spread of TB is like, er, burning witches to ‘protect your crops’. May has warned viewers that his findings are ‘pretty shocking’, adding the story ‘will outrage viewers more than anything since the Post Office scandal’. Crikey…

The practice of badger culling was permitted in England by David Cameron’s government some ten years ago. The Tories made the move to contain the spread of the malicious bovine TB, a chronic lung condition that can also spread to humans and indeed did so before milk pasteurisation became a widespread practice.