Analysis: The investigation of a questionable 2016 appointment raises yet more questions
If the BBC were the England football team, it would surely be known for own goals rather than missed penalties. Its review of the rehiring of Martin Bashir is another opportunity for fans to wonder why they keep offering up such gifts to the enemy.
Just three weeks after the devastating Dyson report into Bashir’s use of fake documents to secure an interview with Princess Diana in 1995, the BBC’s internal investigation cleared the corporation and its existing executives of any wrongdoing when it rehired him to report on religion some 20 years later.
