The beeb will get painfully buggered from all directions of ideological fanatics...!!!

Yes, precisely my point, pfr. Although even I didn't wax quite that eloquent! ;-) But you're guilty of it too. And no, not the far right, either. The "ordinary" right say the same things. If I run my eye down my social media list of friends, probably 95% of them that have expressed a political opinion are as much or further left as I. I don't have any far right friends, to the best of my knowledge.

On the other hand, I live in a constituency that is not only solidly CON job (as opposed to LAB rats, before anyone accuses me of bias! ;-) ). So a lot of people I know round here are to the right of me. This was, in fact, a heavy Leave voting area. And some of them, frankly, are downright fucking ignorant (I have heard "I don't care, I just want out of the EU"), whilst otherwise being perfectly nice people.

{shrug} It takes all sorts to make a world, don't it? And never be shy of questioning whether you're own prejudices / conditioning is on display. The BBC is not perfect, but it seems to me to have become rather less perfect in the last decade. It isn't an organisation that should be launching social crusades or trying to change the world which, alas, it does all too often give the appearance of doing in recent years. It certainly doesn't appear to left-leaning me to be a right wing mouthpiece; the opposite, if anything.

That it seems to be tilting to my side of the fence is no less alarming, than if it were the other way. Its place is... next to the fence. Not on it. As I say, neutrality is very difficult to practice, let alone achieve. Balance is not. And the BBC, unfortunately seems to be tilting.

That, genuinely, does worry me.