Whoever replaces the outgoing BBC CEO Tony Hall, be sure that the establishment’s interests will be in good hands. But the scandals in which the British broadcaster turned out to be implicated caused it, quite possibly, irreparable damage.

The official next CEO will be appointed by Sir David Clementi, who has been educated in Winchester, Oxford and Harvard, in the past - Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the insurance giant Prudential, Director of Rio Tinto Zinc, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Virgin Money and CEO of Kleinwort Benson. His grandfather was the governor of Hong Kong.

So do not hesitate, the interests of the establishment are in good hands.

But in reality, the new director general will be chosen by another blue-blooded graduate of elite schools, a graduate of Eaton and Oxford, Boris Johnson.

Because the BBC is just as much a “state-owned broadcasting company” as the others in the world that it prefers to watch with its nose up.

The current government appoints the leaders of the BBC, and those, of course, put on top positions of their own kind.

By the way, until relatively recently, the special services had their office at the headquarters of the company, the London television and radio broadcasting center. There, secret agents secretly checked employees and personnel policies. Just in case. But since such a government was never allowed to power in the country that sought to put under its knife the status quo - in matters of economy, defense and foreign affairs - all prevention was, strictly speaking, redundant.

For past generations, working for the BBC was akin to serving in the Foreign Ministry or in the palace. It was an army of polished "servants of the people", whose loyalty to the establishment could not be doubted as a whole. Of course, not without one or two oversights.

So, an important position right under the nose of MI5 was taken by KGB agent Guy Burgess.

A mistake of a different type was already made in 1982 by appointing Sir Alasder Milne as CEO. Milne was born in 1930 in India, studied in Winchester and Oxford, had the blood of the bluest hues, but he was serious about serving society and journalistic ethics. He spent five troubled years at the helm of the BBC. During these years, Margaret Thatcher struck blow after blow at the miners and a large part of industrial Great Britain, waged a major war for the Falkland Islands, organized "death squads" in the north of Ireland and refused to make concessions while participants in the hunger strike of the Irish Republicans died. The BBC, led by Milne, was determined to resist the prime minister’s Bonapartist inclinations, which infuriated her more and more.

Thatcher got rid of Milne in 1987, and this seriously hit the long-standing myth of a certain “independence” of the BBC from the government.

Destroy Corbin at all costs

But recently, the BBC, the once majestic ship of the British state, went into much more stormy waters. And the ship was plotted with almost Thatcher cruelty.

The prospect of a Labor government with Jeremy Corbin plunged the BBC and its carefully selected journalists into horror - for many obvious reasons.

There has never been such a government in Great Britain before - it does not inspire confidence that it will adhere to the dictatorship of the prevailing attitudes. And in order to destroy such a prospect, they launched everything, ignoring reputation risks.

Destroyed Corbin should be at almost ANY cost. The news and socio-political materials (and personnel appointments) of the Corbin era of 2015-2019 resembled the screaming, shrill tabloids of Rupert Murdoch - the same clumsy and crude efficiency.

Perhaps the BBC was afraid that they would be tormented by the spirit of Sir Alasder Milne, who returned in the guise of his son Sheimas Milne, the right hand of Corbin and his director of strategy and communications.

The younger Milne (also from Winchester and Oxford) is a nut tighter than those that came before anyone in the BBC. So if such concerns were, then justified.

Money problems

But from the main threat to the continued existence of the once-reinforced concrete hegemony of the BBC, you can’t get as easy as from Corbin. And she is connected with money.

This is not only about money extorted from taxpayers to pay for the rampant swelling of the BBC empire in an era when Netflix, Amazon, Sky and many others demonstrate that other financial models exist and have turned for millions of British families into additional expense items besides the BBC, which they once had enough.

I’m not the only one now paying for the BBC license, and I don’t practically watch it. And I live in the hope that my wife will never know how much Sky Sports, BT Sports, Manchester United TV, Netflix and Amazon cost us!

But recent financial scandals have shown that a taxpayer is forced to pay second-rate showmen and “telepar”, many of whom literally receive millions, are almost not in demand, have not been approved by the public and would have to work in the commercial sector with any healthy system. And the fact that among the highest paid were people who were subsequently convicted of pedophilia, sexual harassment, rape and other nasty things may have caused BBC irreparable damage.

In the 21st century, there is simply no place for a state-owned broadcasting company that pretends not to be such, duplicates hundreds of services that are already provided by commercial media, is paid in the most rude form for the poll tax, and allows villains, scammers, and comic song artists to receive unthinkable money . The BBC had no one left to whom it could lie.

The author’s point of view may not coincide with the position of the publisher.