http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20200225-105612-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/is-the-uk-government-undermining-the-bbc/ Is the UK Government Undermining the BBC? Danbury, Richard eng 2020-02-25 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 BBC Freedom of Press independent media Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 The independent viability of the BBC from the government of the day has always been significantly a matter of convention. Any Government that took on the BBC was likely to suffer, politically, as a result. But since the last election, the political calculus has changed.