Lord Adonis is in no doubt. The BBC’s coverage of Brexit, says the Labour life peer, is biased. Hopelessly, embarrassingly, appallingly biased. 

Biased, that is, in favour of Brexit.

The BBC, he declares, has become “the Brexit Broadcasting Corporation”. He accuses it of devoting insufficient coverage to anti-Brexit protest marches, and of running an “internal system of censorship” which “vetoes output likely to offend [the] Government and [Nigel] Farage”. Indeed, he explains, Brexit is “largely the creation of the BBC”.

Of course, Lord Adonis isn’t alone in calling the BBC’s coverage of Brexit biased. Lord Tebbit, the Conservative life peer, has called it biased, too. Except that he called it...