Jim Carroll: "WHAT?????"

You must tune in more often, Jim. It has consistently criticised government policy of the day from the Left, whether it be through the Tory years or the more recent Labour ones. It promotes based on a range of politically correct liberal criteria and is happy to laud figures on the left while censoring views that are even mildly right of centre.

Wyrdolafr: "I think if the BBC is culturally anything I think it's London-centric first and foremost."

It's definitely that, too. As the BBC's former Chief Political Correspondent (and current employee and Labour luvvie), Andrew Marr has written:

"The BBC is not impartial or neutral. It's a publicly funded, urban organisation with an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities and gay people. It has a liberal bias not so much a party-political bias. It is better expressed as a cultural liberal bias"


My point is that Folk Music is certainly not discriminated against on grounds of it being too left wing. That may have happened in the dim and distant past but not for the last 20 years.