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The Huw Edwards scandal shows that the BBC never learns

17 September 2024

8:12 PM

17 September 2024

8:12 PM

Albert Einstein wasn’t thinking about the BBC when he defined insanity as ‘doing the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result’, but he could have been. The BBC’s latest scandal, involving its former star presenter Huw Edwards, has followed a remarkably similar trajectory to the last two marmalade droppers that embroiled the Corporation.

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