Is the BBC doing the job of national broadcaster or pursuing its own agenda?

It's getting scary.

Values one used to hold dear. People you believed in, trusted, valued. Arbiters of the truth, that most sacrosanct of things. Purveyors of facts. Impartial advice and news. The things upon which your view of the world, your opinions, rested. The national broadcaster. Impartial and true. Unblemished, untarnished. Above all (and these are the absolute keys for me) credible, reliable trustworthy.

Truth. The foundation stone on which one can build one's life, one's views, one's attitude, one's actions, one's way of life and one's belief system.

I'm not talking about religion here, but I could be. This is, if anything, even more powerful in terms of influence. Actually that is a ridiculous comparison. Religion is not in the same league in the UK as the BBC. Good old 'auntie'. Provider of entertainment and for most people, the biggest influence in their lives in terms of communication and their perception of the world around them. From what to cook and eat, to who's shagging whom in the sleb world, to what's right and what's wrong.

Who we should bomb. Who we should vote for. Propagating the man-made climate change scam and that our membership of the EU is vital to our future prosperity.

Then there's the in-house scandals and cover-ups. Paying people to gag them. stopping them from spilling the beans about miss-management or illegal practices. Wasting our money on failed projects. Paying people off with extraordinary amounts of our money. Harbouring paedophiles operating for decades while working at the BBC. And it is clear that colleagues knew about it. (see above).

And pursuing people via the courts for non-payment of the license fee, when actually the BBC has broken its contract with viewers through its obvious lack of impartiality.

I know the arguments about taking risks on programmes. Brilliant stuff like the News Quiz or I'm sorry I haven't a clue or 'from our own correspondent' or The Archers (all Radio 4) simply wouldn't get made if the only criteria was commercial success. Radio 3 a bastion of the arts and classical music simply wouldn't exist without the BBC's unique funding system.

And I do have some sympathy with these arguments. The alternative is endless cheap crap telly, with Big Brother and all the utter mindless crap that we are subjected too these days. A particular favourite of mine, Test Match Special, probably wouldn't be justified on purely commercial grounds.

I have often argued in defense of the BBC. Saying that what it has given to us and to the world is high amongst the best things that Britain has given to the world.

But the fact is that the BBC has become a biased organisation that seems increasingly to be pursuing its own agenda these days. It seems to be peopled by smug lefties who have no experience of the real world and who seem to think that they know best, that any opposing views are unworthy of consideration.

It's clear to me that the BBC needs to change. To reassert it's founding values of impartiality; to give us the facts instead of putting forward its own views on major issues. It needs to come clean about the scandals that it is currently drowning in. It needs to be much more transparent and much more even-handed in its news coverage. It needs to investigate climate change properly instead of telling us that the science is settled when it clearly is not. Sorry to harp on about this (AGW) but Tony Blair described it as the biggest single issue facing mankind and we are, in my opinion, being duped and paying massively in higher green taxes as a result.And the BBC is complicit, indeed it is leading the way in allowing government to raise ever more tax revenue from 'Green energy' when there is very little evidence that it is justified in doing so.

If it doesn't do this, and soon - reestablish its credibility and its stature as a world-leading provider of truth - then it will fail, be broken up, lose its unique funding system and disappear as a major global media player and world influencer. That would, in my view, be a great shame because it does some things brilliantly and we'd be poorer as a nation and as a world without the BBC.

But unless it throws off this yolk of leftist bollocks, this Agenda 21 complicit approach, this current unquestioning 'establishment' bias (by which I mean Whitehall and the EU, Agenda 21, Common Purpose etc), it will deserve to be changed. Probably beyond recognition.

Unless it becomes, once again, something that we can be proud of, it will disappear in its current form. I'm hoping that the BBC is starting to recognise this threat and that it will do something about it, to save itself rather than continuing to think it is above the law and above its original charter values. If not, the above programme (which is one of the best things it does) will seem to have an ironically apt title.

The clock's ticking for the BBC in my opinion and there's not much time left to save it.

Thanks for reading.