New @BBC Chair Richard Sharpe:

Multi-millionaire🤔

Rishi Sunak’s ex-boss😳

Given hundreds of thousands of pounds to the @Conservatives🤭

Former investment banker - eight years at JP Morgan before moving to Goldman Sachs🤬

Can you see what it is yet? https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/06/former-goldman-sachs-banker-richard-sharp-to-be-next-bbc-chairman?CMP=share_btn_tw
Former Goldman Sachs banker Richard Sharp to be next BBC chairman

Sharp to take over as corporation faces scrutiny over equal pay, diversity and competition from streaming services such as Netflix

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/06/former-goldman-sachs-banker-richard-sharp-to-be-next-bbc-chairman?CMP=share_btn_tw
Given the @BBC is getting a former investment banker & Tory Party donor as Chair, I wonder what will happen to @BBCNews', @BBCPolitics', & perhaps especially @bbcquestiontime's *legendary* obligation to be "politically neutral", "balanced", & "impartial"?

https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1206992886841192451
More (extremely concerning) detail on new @BBC Chair Richard Sharpe from @ta_mills: https://twitter.com/ta_mills/status/1346816292536381442
And now it's reported that Andrew Neil's new project 'GB News' is funded by "the Legatum Institute" - a very rich think-tank registered in Cayman Islands who sponsored The Road to Brexit (foreword by IDS).

Their 'business style' is disaster capitalism. https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1206992886841192451
Without question, British democracy hangs by a thread. https://twitter.com/bakerstherald/status/1346781022520803328
More context: https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1316654443836866560
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