ANOTHER grim repeat.
The BBC’s shameful instinct to cover up the sexual antics of its “talent” is as predictable as most of its output.
From the grotesque crimes of Jimmy Savile, Stuart Hall and Huw Edwards to the brazen misogyny of Gregg Wallace, the pattern never changes.
A star deemed too big to fall — and complaints ignored.
When the festering scandal inevitably erupts, the corporation eats humble pie, claims lessons will be learned and yet insists that robust procedures are already in place.
It’s all cobblers.
The abuse never seems to stop.
Wallace has lost the plot, somehow congratulating himself on triggering a mere 13 complaints from 4,000 Masterchef contestants — and claiming those were all from middle-class, middle-aged women he considers too joyless to appreciate his 1970s pub-bore sexism.
But even if the old dinosaur doesn’t seem to know any better, the BBC should.
How was it possible, considering the reputation-shredding scandals of Savile and the rest, for a barrage of complaints about Wallace from other broadcasters to be all but ignored?
And for nothing to be done about concerns, stretching back 17 years, raised by six production crew members?
The corporation’s stock defence is typically risible: “We take any issues raised with us seriously and have robust processes to deal with them.
“We are always clear that any behaviour which falls below the standards expected by the BBC will not be tolerated.”
Except it is. Every time.
Stars’ grubby behaviour, or worse, is often an open secret there.
But executives prioritising their own careers refuse to rock the boat.
If the BBC now instigates yet another probe into what went wrong, fine.
But is it even capable of learning from it?
JOE Biden will now go down in history not as the hapless victim of mental frailty but as a monstrous hypocrite and liar.
Even his own shocked party will recall him with loathing after the staggering U-turn over pardoning his criminal son.
After all, how can those sanctimonious Democrats preach from the moral high ground now Biden has stooped to Trump’s level?
How they all cheered back in May as the President declared: “No one is above the law” — a stinging barb at Trump.
He meant “no one except former crack addict Hunter Biden”.
Are we really expected to believe Sleepy Joe didn’t intend all along to give him a get-out-of-jail-free card as the Biden family’s parting shot to the nation?
What an increasingly abysmal example this quirk of US Presidential power sets to the world.
