Free market evangelists are closing in on the corporation. Don’t let it become another institution we only miss when it’s gone
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BBC is a public good. It’s a mark of the existential danger the corporation is now in that that statement has become controversial; that the home of David Attenborough and Panorama, of Blue Peter and In the Night Garden and groundbreaking drama and
comedy, from Cathy Come Home to Fleabag, is now so friendless.
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