Yes, some of the entertainment department. The current director-general of the BBC has made it clear he wants to stop that. It has been reported that LGBTQ people at the BBC are finding it to be a hostile work environment now.
As for left wing politics, we are a long way from the days when someone like Paul Mason could be an editor on Newsnight. He left the BBC nine years ago.
The BBC’s editorial policy now appears to be that Tony Blair is the radical left, and anything further left than that is unthinkable. The BBC is a symptom of TERF Island’s increasingly reactionary politics. It is turning into Britain’s Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines.
I’m tired of people saying “It’ll never happen here.” It is happening right now, and just because it isn’t happening to you doesn’t mean that you should ignore that the vast majority of trans people in the UK are in agreement with me. The Council of Europe (which Britain is still a part of) are very concerned about what is going on here too.
But yeah, we get token representation in Doctor Who, so it all balances out /s
