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If you want to know what makes Burnham’s new Svengali tick, forget the nearly two years he served as CEO of a global consultancy firm. Instead, look at what he did during his stint as one of the BBC’s top executives between 2013 and 2020, as both director of strategy and director of radio and education, when he championed the worst excesses of the diversity and inclusion agenda.
The climax of this stint was the publication in 2018 of an extraordinary report, ‘LGBT Culture and Progression’. It set out a detailed plan to transform the corporation and to force it to comply with the diktats of the LGBTQ+ lobby. Purnell oversaw the report and wrote the foreword. He applauded its recommendations, which he openly acknowledged were written with ‘support from Stonewall’…..
With the blessing of Purnell, the demands of this tiny, unrepresentative bunch ricocheted through the BBC’s editorial output. One of the demands, for example, was for LGBT characters to feature more frequently and prominently in shows. If you want to complain about the endless succession of drag queens on your TV screen, Andy Burnham’s new chief of staff is your man.
Another demand was that staff should use preferred pronouns. This was taken by journalists as an instruction to respect the delusions of any crossdresser – even in news reports. Male rapists who claimed to be female would now routinely be referred to as ‘she / her’ by the BBC.
Lovely. And now he’s heading for the heart of government.
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