'Time we put Beeb in special measures'

THE BBC should be placed in “special measures” as if it were a failing school, say campaigners - after it screened a singer leading chants at Glastonbury calling for “death” to Israeli soldiers.

- By David Williamson

Campaigners say the state broadcaster can “no longer be trusted to mark its own homework” following international outrage at the screening of punk duo Bob Vylan’s set last weekend.

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has been urged to intervene following a “series of high-profile blunders” which the group Defund the BBC claimed has revealed “deeply ingrained ideological bias”.

The minister last week told MPs she was “not satisfied” with the information provided to her by the BBC about its failure to pull the live feed.