Neil Mackay: BBC is scared to challenge power and is putting democracy in danger

IF only the BBC had the gumption of Ireland’s national broadcaster. On Monday, RTE presenter Claire Byrne did to Nigel Farage what every BBC journalist should have been doing for the last 20 years – she held him to account and deftly revealed a truth we all know: Farage is a blithering, dangerous idiot.

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