If the corporation cannot demonstrate genuine impartiality, on the Middle East, on domestic politics, on questions of sex and gender, it will forfeit not just its reputation, but the authority that makes it worth funding at all.
Currently, many couples are denied a chance of parenthood by a geographical lucky dip.
It takes longer to get from London to Portsmouth than it does to get to Doncaster, a distance that is over twice as far. Something must be done about that.
If the corporation cannot demonstrate genuine impartiality, on the Middle East, on domestic politics, on questions of sex and gender, it will forfeit not just its reputation, but the authority that makes it worth funding at all.