Phil R:
Read this board for ten minutes, though, and you'd say the same about the RAF.
Not sure what you're saying here, old chap. If it is that I, for example, am:
a shambling muttering old has been...
point taken and I stand fearlessly four square with Wander00 in stating "guilty as charged".
So what? The subject of this thread is the BBC and I sincerely believe it is past its sell by date. It has kicked the bucket, passed over, shuffled off its mortal coil, joined the choir invisible, rung down the final curtain and is an ex-Aunty. Having designed, built and settled into a brand new purpose built HQ it has gone through all the identifiable stages of corporate decay. The decent thing now is to put it, and us, out of misery.
If on the other hand it is that the post war RAF has shown a disgraceful distancing of itself from the defence of the WWII RAF Bombing Campaign and the 67 year campaign to properly pay tribute to those who gave their lives in it, again point taken. Churchill's betrayal was unforgivable but par for the course from a politician. In contrast, the acts of commission and omission by succeeding Air Boards are utterly beneath contempt.