Richard Eldred – The Daily Sceptic May 17, 2026
A former BBC News boss says trans activist colleagues drove her out of her job. The Mail has more.
Fran Unsworth who was the Corporation’s Director of News and Current Affairs from 2018 to 2022 said the news division became “increasingly unmanageable” during her tenure because of a pressure to adopt what she called a “mono-perspective” on trans issues.
She said: “I would actually say it drove me out, just dealing with the progressive editorial issues and the bullying around them all. It was incredibly difficult.”
The former BBC executive delivered her criticisms in an interview with her former colleague Rob Burley which was published by the website UnHerd yesterday (Saturday).
Her comments will compound the worst fears of viewers who believe that the BBC has embraced a radical gender ideology which is out of step with mainstream public opinion.
Ms Unsworth, 68, said that BBC managers had to accept responsibility for an environment at the Corporation where radical views on trans and identity issues were normalised.
BBC news staff felt obliged to adopt a “kind” approach to the trans issues and trans people even at the expense of their own journalistic integrity.
She said: “There was a sea in which we all swam… an atmosphere. We need to be kind to transitioning people. It’s a social phenomenon. And I think this ‘be kind’ thing was at the heart of it.”
Asked if she thought that atmosphere had been a problem journalistically, she said: “I do, yes. I do.”
Ms Unsworth said news staff who sought to challenge this prevailing consensus came under an “awful lot of pressure” from colleagues in news, entertainment and drama who had embraced the “mono perspective” on trans issues. …
She said the BBC’s problems at the time had reflected the “progressive madness” engulfing other institutions.
She said: “This wasn’t something that just affected the BBC…The world went mad, and the BBC, because it is part of the world, went a bit mad with it. This was going on in every institution in society; there was a kind of national bullying going on.”
Worth reading in full – and if you can get behind the paywall, the original piece by Rob Burley in UnHerd, which the Mail story is based on, is well worth a read.
Personally, I think the root of the problem is, to paraphrase the learned Barbara Lerner Spectre, founding director of Paideia, the Jewish Institute for International Studies in Tel Aviv…
“The BBC has not yet learned how to be multicultural … It’s a huge transformation for the BBC to make. It is now going into a multicultural mode and Transvestites will be resented because of our leading role. But without that leading role, and without that transformation, the BBC will not survive”.
In diversity is (((our))) strength!!
The look of love is in your eyes
The look your heart can’t disguise
The look of love
is saying so much more than
words could every say
And what my heart has heard
it takes my breath away
– Dusty Springfield
People who work for the beast are the beast. People who used to work for the beast telling you “how awful it was” are FoS.
The dates and her age tell you she was a 65 year old woman running some part of the mind control grid. 65? She’s really on the side of all those younger than her isn’t she? You can bet she lives in a great big house in the “country”. All that they say about trump applies to her too.
If she’s a “Ms Unsworth” as stated, then she’s probably a lesbian (or a man), so all her other stuff is meaningless.
“It was incredibly difficult.” My heart bleeds. You poor hard done by worked for the beast lesbian. Let’s hear how much you care about the homeless, those forced to live in boxes stacked on top of other boxes, those being replaced by immigrants, the rape victims, those maimed and killed by the “vaccines”, those being abused and “euthanised” in the don’t care homes, the children being snatched from their parents by “protect”, those driven into drugs and prostitution, those being driven into poverty and the street by the beast that you took money from. FO.
everyone needs to see this exposure of tommy robinson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkhbsR4yiS0
We are not in control of this. All the qualities need a hybrid. Not qualities
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Phone bad at predictive. Dual…ities
Get a load of that deranged creature in the photo at the top, looking like a couple wino hobos vomited all over it. It should be whipped in the street and get its teeth bashed out with a hammer.
BBC (“Big Black Cawk” corporation) caught with its pants down… AGAIN!!
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This kind of thing isn’t new, it just has its times. Propagandists and bureaucrats pander to a political machine and in the end that machinery of state takes over. It becomes what rules and it can crush anybody because all end up below it, including some rulers, and this may become so with AI.
They put trans ideology above all others, to the point any argument against it–eg. nobody born male in female safe spaces–is never considered reasonable but always an attack on it. And now it dominates to the point it will be difficult to reverse and for common sense, and science!, to return.
The ‘brotherhood of man under the fatherhood of god’ doesn’t seem to be working.
Whwn I saw that photo at the top the only thing I could think of was: “It’s ma’am!!”LOL!
Poor Fran! First a huge supporter of equal wimmins/dykes/trannies rights now complains it is out of her lucrative job delivering fake news to the Bwitish public. At least the way Fran looks prepared very well for it – from the optical perspective!
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Irish president’s sister detained by Israel in ‘unacceptable’ move
Story by Gráinne Ní AodhaIsrael’s detention of the Irish president’s sister, Dr. Margaret Connolly, during a food aid flotilla mission to Gaza has drawn sharp condemnation from Ireland’s political leaders.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin branded the incident “wrong” and “unacceptable,” particularly the detention of Irish citizens Dr. Connolly, sister of President Catherine Connolly, is among 12 Irish nationals aboard the global sumud flotilla, organisers confirmed.
The convoy, comprising 60 vessels, reported that 10 boats were intercepted in international waters and boarded by Israeli forces shortly after 9 am on Monday. Contact with the intercepted vessels has since been cut
Nutenyahu has repeatedly said ” no food will be allowed into Gaza”
President Connolly has said the incident is “quite upsetting” and while very proud of her sister, she is “very worried about her”.
Dr. Connolly, sister of President Catherine Connolly, is among 12 Irish nationals aboard the global sumud flotilla, organisers confirmed. President Connolly has said the incident is “quite upsetting” and while very proud of her sister, she is “very worried about her”.Ireland’s deputy premier Simon Harris said his thoughts are with the president and other families whose loved ones have been arrested and detained. Mr Harris said on Tuesday: “I was very struck by the president’s comments yesterday, because on a purely personal level of course you’d be worried, and my heart goes out to President Connolly and her family, and indeed all of the families of those roughed up and detained. “What Israel has done is, illegal.“It is, in breach of international law, quite frankly,Asked whether the Irish government should engage with Israel on the detention of the president’s sister, Mr Harris said: “We’re at this long enough to know that Israel doesn’t really care very much for people’s words, does it?”He said members of government, opposition and others have criticised Israel’s actions in Gaza but “unfortunately Israel seems to ignore the condemnation of the international world”.Irish premier Mr Martin said it is “wrong” and “unacceptable” that Iish citizens, including the president of Ireland’s sister, have been detained by Israeli forces.He said the behaviour of Israel in international waters against the aid flotilla is “unacceptable” and that people have a right to protest and take part in a mission to highlight the “shocking” humanitarian issue in Gaza.We have condemned that as we have before where Israel intervenes in international waters and detains and essentially abducts people from the ships, and that’s unacceptable and the international rule of law has to apply.“So, we will be raising this at European Union level in the context of other issues pertaining to Gaza and the West Bank in particular, and we hope to make progress at European Union level in relation to a number of issues in relation to Palestine, particularly in terms of sanctions on settlers, for example, who are being facilitated by the Israeli government.” there is much talk of revenge on jews here in ireland
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The stabbing beleived to be a father of one of the abused boys
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BBC coverage of Eurovision suffers huge UK ratings blow, losing several million viewers
Story by George Lewis • 1d •The Eurovision Song Contest is over for another year, thank god
with the 71st edition of the long-running event set to head to Bulgaria after Dara triumphed with catchy dance song ‘Bangaranga’.
It wasn’t a brilliant night (again) for the UK, however, as the dreadful Look Mum No Computer placed dead last after accruing only a single point – courtesy of the Jury Vote – for barmy synth track ‘Eins, Zwei, Drei’.The Eurovision Song Contest is over for another year.
It wasn’t a brilliant night (again) for the UK, however, as Look Mum No Computer placed dead last, was described as an ” exercise in poofery”
Continuing the trend of disappointment for the UK, the BBC’s live broadcast of the event had the lowest viewership for 15 years, with the reported figure of just 4.2 million viewers being 1.49 million lower than last year (via Eurovoix)
Watching this farce made me ashamed to be british
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BBC BULLSHIT
Viral posts claim Eurovision winner was secretly bought
Story by Tamsin Paternoster • 19hA viral X post claiming that Eurovision’s 2026 contest was secretly “fixed”
in Finland’s favour spread widely in the days leading up to this year’s final in Vienna.
The post, which initially circulated on TikTok, amassed more than 1 million views and presented itself as testimony from a Eurovision “security guard.”
Eurovision has been dogged by corruption all along with up to ten votes from the same person for israel
“I can freely say through a secret account that the winner is picked,” the viral post said, alleging that Finland had offered organisers of the competition around €16 million to secure victory.
The UK entry was deemed abysmal, and folk could not understand why it was picked
Useful Cornelius. Thanks. We know it, but still important info…
“Robinson” is continuing what Nick Griffin started: Harnessing genuine anti immigration sentiment and steering it for the Zionist and international Jewish capital by targetting Islam in particular rather than the forces inflicting Muslims on Europe itself.
Reform are the political wing of this dialectic.
Most Reform members – including elected councillors – will be genuine patriots/nationalists. Eventually, many will learn that Farage is not what he seems to them. This again was the trajectory of the British National Party that was squeezed from within and from without.
All nationalist movements since the war have been captured, steered, or inaugurated to capture indigenous outrage and diffuse it…
There are two Gods; insisting on one male one is very trouble-causing, and only dick-heads do it
I don’t like trans or gays. From my experience, they’re crazy and ruin everything (including small kids and confused teens) with their obsessions for lower members of the body. They are nice enough, but there’s always that weirdness in the background of their characters, and they are very defensive and make their point of view sacrosanct. I am a closet heterosexual. Dealing with that is difficult and in the present queer imprinted West, becoming (cliche) more so.