BBC: Social Affairs Unit

This page relates to the Social Affairs Unit’s attacks on the BBC. A separate page deals with the Social Affairs Unit in general.

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Social Affairs Unit and the BBC

Whilst other right-wing think-tanks like the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Adam Smith Institute heavily criticised the BBC since the beginning of the Thatcher era, the Social Affairs Unit does not appear to have shown much interest in broadcasting until relatively recently. In 2005 it published a 219 page polemic Scrap the BBC!: Ten Years to Set Broadcasters Free.

Scrap the BBC! was written by the right-wing commentator Richard North, SAU’s arts reviewer who was also a media fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs. It featured on its covered a tomb stone with an epitaph reading, ‘STATE BROADCASTING 1926-2015 R.I.P.’.