By Liz S

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The BBC in Scotland platform those (same) ‘experts’ who are to be assumed to be neutral , but as experts , they all somehow always seem to have a rabid #SNPBAD angle in their opinions .

So then with many of these guests being presented as politically ‘neutral’ you then find that after you do just a wee bit of research, or you already know who they are, it is clearly obvious and so then firmly established that they have an affiliation with some opposition political party to the SNP.

In April 2026 MSM Monitor posted this:

“The latest edition of Scotcast features well known Scottish Labour activist Prof. June Andrews but fails to inform people of her political background. In the 2024 general election she campaigned for Labour candidate Gregor Poynton. In Oct 2024 BBC Scotland had to apologise for platforming the same academic without telling people she was a Labour activist. Andrews is currently posting pro-Labour campaign material on social media. Martin Geissler and his Scotcast colleagues have some explaining to do”.

BBC corrections and clarifications noted that apology in stating that:

“BBC Radio Scotland, 28 October 2024

In an interview about charity Age Scotland’s concern that more older people will be taken to hospital with hypothermia this year following cuts to the winter fuel payment, the programme spoke with a guest as an expert in the care of older people.

Our editorial guidelines state that “We should not automatically assume that contributors from other organisations (such as academics, journalists, researchers and representatives of charities and think-tanks) are unbiased. Appropriate information about their affiliations, funding and particular viewpoints should be made available to the audience, when relevant to the context.”

While the contributions from the guest were appropriate for the item, in hindsight, with the interview moving into areas of political decision-making, the programme should have found a way to convey to listeners more information on the guest’s party political standpoint. We have reminded our teams of the importance of this in preparing and conducting interviews”.

So they, BBC HQ, may have “reminded our (their) teams (in Scotland) of the importance of this in preparing and conducting interviews” but it seems that they, BBC Scotland, are clearly not listening , as in this is obviously falling on deaf ears.

Though I strongly suspect that they, BBC Scotland, are not being reminded by BBC HQ to “convey to listeners more information on the guest’s party political standpoint” but instead this pointless BBC Corrections and Clarifications is a way to avoid any real accountability and punishment by the media regulator.

A media regulator who is supposed to regulate media output .

As the BBC , as a British broadcaster , see it as their job to make sure that the SNP are politically damaged and so then any, or all other parties ( pro UK ones) , who stand against them in Scotland then benefit from all and any #SNPBAD news via all of the most obvious anti SNP guests on the BBC. (this is done at both BBC Scotland branch office level and also at BBC HQ in London).

That political damage to the SNP by the BBC is also inflicted by their political editors , by all of the opposition parties of the SNP that the BBC regularly give a platform to in order to scream #SNPBAD and also basically anyone else that they, the BBC, thinks will be able to relate their own particular #SNPBAD story in order for the BBC to broadcast it on their various BBC news programmes, transmit it on BBC radio or publish it on their BBC website.

Once even more people in Scotland become enlightened to this above fact in respect to the BBC news teams, well then and only then can that finally further diminish an already failing British news corporation and so then see it falling even further into insignificance as a news source, and also as one that should be regarded as politically compromised, totally untrustworthy and extremely unreliable.

Amen to that.

Liz S

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