The grandly titled CEO of BBC News and Current Affairs, Deborah Turness, described Donald Trump’s re-election as ‘a dramatic night that changed everything’. She made that claim in an internal email to staff, lauding the Corporation’s ‘unmissable’ US election results coverage.
Her email though raises an interesting question: if Trump’s victory has changed everything, will it also lead to change at the BBC? Among the significant factors that undid the Democrats in the US election was the runaway spread of what Elon Musk calls the ‘woke mind virus’. But while the Democrats seem to have now realised the way they allowed identity politics to alienate their voters, there is no sign yet that our national broadcaster has learned the same lesson.
The BBC and the Democrats have followed a similar path when it comes to identity politics. I recall being baffled when I first heard Kamala Harris state her pronouns publicly back in 2019.
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