BBC sport and online news to be cut as Red Button services face axe
Spending on athletics and minority sports is to be cut by the BBC, with its Red Button services also facing the axe, as the corporation aims to save £150m a year before its final round of budget negotiations with the government. A “significant chunk” of the savings to be announced on Wednesday morning, amounting to £35m, is expected to come out of sports rights, according to sources. BBC insiders said the corporation still hoped to bid to show the Olympics in the UK. More than 90% of the UK’s population watched at least some of the BBC’s coverage of the 2012 London Olympics.
That is not in itself a bad thing. You can learn as much about successful leadership from those characters as you can from reading Robert Caro, LBJ’s biographer. But it explains why – for all the indifference that Corbyn and co appear to be showing to the need to persuade the public to vote for them in five years’ time – they are operating with relentless and at times brutal efficiency in their efforts to seize control of the Labour party’s internal machinery. Why? Because, as any good Marxist knows, you must secure your revolution against the enemies within – including the temptation to dilute the purity of your principles and policies – before there is any chance of taking on your enemies without.
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