ANALYSIS
The BBC must stay focused on making history
f there’s a benefit to our national broadcaster beyond its ability to speak to, and engage, all of Britain’s citizens on a principle of universal accessibility distanced from vested interests – not to mention enrage idiots like Nadine Dorries by its mere taxpayer-funded existence – then it’s how it functions as a permanent repository for the cultural memory of a nation. A kind of televisual Tardis, through which we can transport ourselves to practically any moment in the last