Please remember, as corrupt Covid contracts hit the headlines again, that it the BBC didn't mention the issue for *a full 5 months* after the Good Law Project and others exposed it. Except on a few rare occasions, it has marginalised the story ever since.
This is arguably the biggest corruption scandal of modern times. Yet the BBC has flunked repeated opportunities to give it the attention it deserves.
Sometimes I feel our national broadcaster does more to suppress the news than to reveal it.
Sometimes I feel our national broadcaster does more to suppress the news than to reveal it.
Those of us with much smaller resources than the BBC has at its disposal - openDemocracy, the Guardian, Byline Times - were able to give this issue the coverage it deserved. So it's not a question of capacity. It's a question of will.
The @GoodLawProject, which is arguably now the most effective investigative organisation in the UK, laid it out with total clarity. Once the GLP had done the legwork, it wasn't a difficult story to cover, because all the facts were there, linked to primary sources. #NoExcuses
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