FWIW there's a new Director-general: Matt Brittin, whose CV includes Cambridge rowing team, MBA from LBS, McKinsey, Trinity Mirror (owner of The Daily Mirror) and 18 years at Google.

He was the Google boss who said in 2016 that he doesn't know his own salary.

Presumably he wants what's best for all of us.

Everyone can agree BBC has an agenda. But it usually looks like no one can agree what that agenda actually is.