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BBC Director-General Tim Davie resigned Sunday after the taxpayer-funded broadcaster was caught airing doctored footage of President Donald Trump’s January 6, 2021 speech — falsely making it appear that Trump urged his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol.

Davie, who led the BBC for five years, announced his resignation in a statement saying he was taking “ultimate responsibility” for recent “mistakes.” “Like all public organisations, the BBC is not perfect, and we must always be open, transparent and accountable,” Davie wrote. “While not being the only reason, the current debate around BBC News has understandably contributed to my decision.” The statement notably avoided mentioning Trump by name.

The resignation came alongside that of BBC News CEO Deborah Turness after internal documents revealed that the network’s flagship investigative program Panorama had spliced together two separate lines from Trump’s Jan. 6 address to create a misleading narrative. The program, which aired just a week before the 2024 U.S. presidential election, suggested Trump directly told supporters to “fight like hell” and march on the Capitol.

According to a 19-page whistleblower memo obtained by The Telegraph, editors at the BBC combined Trump’s remarks from the beginning and end of his speech to make him appear as though he was inciting violence. In reality, Trump’s full statement was that his supporters should walk “peacefully and patriotically” to make their voices heard. The memo accused senior BBC executives, including its chairman, of ignoring repeated internal complaints about the doctored footage.

BREAKING: BBC’s director general Tim Davie, and the chief executive of the news division, Deborah Turness, have RESIGNED after it was revealed that BBC EDITED Trump‘s quotes on January 6th to make it look like Trump was calling for an insurrectionpic.twitter.com/uQKfMyP0pf

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 9, 2025

The revelations sparked outrage across the U.K. and abroad, with critics calling the manipulation a “catastrophic breach of trust” by Britain’s state broadcaster. The incident added to growing criticism that the BBC has become increasingly partisan. In recent weeks, the network faced backlash for coverage of the war in Gaza and its treatment of transgender policy debates, both seen as tilting left.

Davie’s departure marks another blow to the BBC’s credibility as it struggles to maintain public trust amid accusations of bias and political interference. The broadcaster has not announced who will replace him.

From LifeSiteNews

By Jonathon Van Maren

Rebuking a female presenter for correcting an ideological script that says men can get pregnant isn’t ‘neutrality,’ by any stretch.

Imagine a society in which the state broadcaster demanded that the female hosts eliminate the word “women” in favor of “people” and rebuked them if their facial expressions betrayed any hit of protest on air.

Welcome to the United Kingdom in 2025. According to the BBC: “Martine Croxall broke rules over ‘pregnant people’ facial expression, BBC says.”

Martine Croxall, a BBC presenter, was introducing an interview about “research on groups most at risk during UK heatwaves,” and the teleprompter script she was reading live on BBC News Channel contained the phrase “pregnant people.”

Croxall visibly raised her eyebrows, and corrected in real-time: “Malcolm Mistry, who was involved in the research, says that the aged, pregnant people … women … and those with pre-existing health conditions need to take precautions.”

I have a new favourite BBC presenter. https://t.co/l2gkThccty

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 22, 2025

When Dr. Mistry, a professor, came on for the interview, she too referred to “pregnant women” rather than “pregnant people.”

Because a female presenter clearly objected to “women” being erased in favor of “people” for the ideological purpose of buttressing gender ideology, the BBC has now upheld “20 impartiality complaints” against Croxall. According to the BBC: “BBC’s Executive Complaints Unit (ECU) said it considered her facial expression as she said this gave the ‘strong impression of expressing a personal view on a controversial matter.’”

READ: BBC rebukes newscaster for correcting ‘pregnant people’ with ‘women’ on air

In other words, as a woman, Croxall obviously objected to the implication that men can get pregnant. Croxall has a son and has thus been pregnant herself. But in our current clown world, the Executive Complaints Unit “said it considered Croxall’s facial expression laid it open to the interpretation that it ‘indicated a particular viewpoint in the controversies currently surrounding trans identity.’”

Indeed. That “particular viewpoint” would be that only women can get pregnant.

The totalitarian trans activists desperately trying to force society to play along with their delusions with force or coercion were behind the complaints, with the ECU reporting that Croxall’s facial expressions were “variously interpreted by complainants as showing disgust, ridicule, contempt, or exasperation.” In other words: Say your lines the way we gave them to you and look like you believe them, bigot.

The ECU was also concerned that those who, you know, disagree with the idea that men can get pregnant were also pleased by Croxall’s act of defiance, and that she received “congratulatory messages” on social media (including one from J.K. Rowling), which “together with the critical views expressed in the complaints to the BBC and elsewhere, tended to confirm the impression of her having expressed a personal view was widely shared across the spectrum of opinion on the issue.”

Clearly the BBC—which is desperately been trying to regain its reputation—is attempting to wave the fig leaf of “neutrality” in order to reestablish its previous bona fides. But rebuking a female presenter for correcting an ideological script and making a facial expression that appeared to indicate opposition to the idea that men can get pregnant isn’t “neutrality,” by any stretch.

Just a decade ago, no media outlet would have considered implementing gender ideology into their coverage as fact. Now presenters are expected to use fundamentally propagandistic language that frontloads the premises of activists while keeping a straight face as if both transgender ideology and observable biological reality are two perspectives deserving of equal respect and consideration.

Jonathon Van Maren

Jonathon’s writings have been translated into more than six languages and in addition to LifeSiteNews, has been published in the National Post, National Review, First Things, The Federalist, The American Conservative, The Stream, the Jewish Independent, the Hamilton Spectator, Reformed Perspective Magazine, and LifeNews, among others. He is a contributing editor to The European Conservative.