Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips

Pass the smelling salts: the BBC is right

Why is the Home Secretary endorsing an attack on objectivity?

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Melanie Phillips
Nov 25, 2021
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Migrant dinghy crossing the English Channel

A row has broken out between Britain’s Home Secretary, Priti Patel, and the BBC. I am absolutely on the side of the BBC.

I think I’d better go and have a lie-down.

The row is over the use of the word “migrants” to describe the individuals who are crossing the English Channel from France in inflatable dinghies and…

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