A brave admission?

We wonder whether Mark Thompson's recent admission that the BBC was biased against Maggie will prove a critical own goal. Draw a line under the issue and move on, was obviously the thinking. Unfortunately for the BBC, its critics have found some validation for thier stance and are unlikely to shut up anytime soon. If the BBC was "massively biased" during the 80's it seems rather unlikely that it would have reformed itself while under no pressure to do so from a friendly Labour goverment.

The usual suspects have been quick to respond with telling pieces from Peter Hitchens and Daniel Hannan. Then yesterday a new player appeared on the scene, the Catholic Church did not mince its words. Unlike the Anglicans who meekly asked for a Religion Editor the Catholics alleged that the BBC harbours "a consistent anti-Christian institutional bias".

We can only imagine Thomson asking his aides "how many spin doctors does the Pope have?"