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BBC Question Time is caught up in yet ANOTHER bias scandal

Once again, the BBC has shown its actual right-wing bias in its labelling of Question Time guests.

BBC Question Time: under fire again

On this week’s episode, the BBC labelled Faiza Shaheen, an established academic, author, and economist, as an “activist”. Meanwhile, they labelled far-right GB News presenter and anti-immigration activist (or racist if you prefer) Matt Goodwin, an “author and academic”. Importantly, Goodwin is no longer even an academic.

Was it because Faiza Shaheen is a woman?

Or because she’s brown?

Or maybe because she’s left-wing?

Perhaps it’s all of the above.

Some social media users suggested it was due to “subconscious bias”. However, for years now, it has been clear that the BBC is no longer impartial.

As far back as 2016, the Canary reported on the BBC’s anti-left bias.

Already this year, the BBC was caught rigging Question Time to turn away pro-Palestine audience members at the door. 

The Canary has also previously reported the many instances of the BBC’s anti-Palestine narratives. So much for an impartial broadcaster.

Goodwin

Goodwin is supposedly a former academic. However, he can’t even get basic bar charts right.

Goodwin has highly divisive views and regularly disseminates extreme disinformation.

He may not be a Reform UK politician, but he has spoken at several Reform events, including its 2025 conference.

Goodwin was able to go on a rant about foreigners committing crimes, with no one really challenging his rhetoric. Of course, he mentioned asylum seekers committing sex crimes. Of course, he failed to mention that white British men commit 87% of sex crimes in the UK.

And you know we’re all fucked, when you’re agreeing with Lisa Nandy.

One BBC Question Time audience member told him:

You’ve used immigrants as a scapegoat for every single issue that we’ve discussed

Several audience members rinsed Goodwin, and at one point, Fiona Bruce stopped a question when she realised it was another anti-Reformer.

Of course, she then had to add:

Can I just point out that there have also been people here who have supported what Matt has to say, and we’ve heard from them, too.

Was it leaning a bit too far left for you, Fiona?

Pro-Reform bias

Of the 27 episodes of BBC Question Time so far this year, Reform UK have appeared on 11 panels. It only has 5 MPs.

In comparison, the Lib Dems, who have 72 MPs, have only appeared on nine panels. How is that balanced?

One X user observed that maybe, just maybe, we should label the far-right-wing talking heads in the corporate media as ‘activists’.

Because, when it comes down to it, establishment hacks sucking up to and platforming right-wing politicians doesn’t exactly scream, ‘impartial’. PR lapdogs for fascists, more like.

The Canary has been calling it for a long time, but all this is to say, the BBC has a serious right-wing bias problem. And by this, we also mean, in age-old Fiona Bruce BBC Question Time tradition, it’s a racist, misogynistic piece of shit of a stitch-up-come-panel show.

And brave, brilliant women of colour like Faiza Shaheen – a distinguished academic – deserved better than this sleight from the public broadcaster.

Feature image via Anthony Foster/YouTube

By HG

This post was originally published on Canary.