Scrapping the BBC’s discredited ‘Verify’ would save licence-payers a fortune with no downside

Try freedom

FACEBOOK’S scrapping of its left-wing “fact-checkers” is a long overdue victory for free speech. When can we expect the BBC’s discredited “Verify” outfit to go too?

For years the social media giant skewed its content for the Left, relegating or deleting conservative posts and even colluding with the US Democrats.

Often, harmless material was ­censored and posters needlessly banned for wrongspeak.

But with Trump’s re-election, Mark Zuckerberg has changed his tune. Now Facebook will let users post “community notes”-style context, as on Elon Musk’s Twitter.

Musk’s instinct, to promote free speech and counter misleading material not with “checkers” prone to bias but with MORE free speech, is the right one.

What now, then, for BBC Verify?

The corporation brags that this 60-strong unit is the gold-standard of fact-checking, as if admitting its actual reporters can’t be trusted.

In reality Verify’s own pro-Labour, anti-Israel bias is just as blatant as it is throughout much of the corporation.

Closing it would save licence-payers a fortune with no downside.

And that’s a fact.

Justice denied

ALL the guilty council officials and cops who enabled the grooming gang rapists are breathing easier today . . . thanks to our Government.

If last night’s vote by MPs holds, there will be no full public inquiry naming those who turned a blind eye to this monstrous, decades-long scandal.

No resultant prosecutions. No justice for thousands of girls whose young lives were wrecked. No nationwide probe to grasp for the first time the scale of an atrocity which may be ongoing.

Keir Starmer whipped his party to defend the indefensible.

The previous review in which he ­places such faith avoided the central issue: Of mostly Pakistani-origin men raping mostly white girls as a left- ­liberal establishment ignored it through paranoia about “Islamophobia”.

Ordinarily Labour loves public inquiries — even now, they are committed to one into violence between police and miners under Maggie Thatcher in 1984.

But not this one.

Which only adds insult to the vulnerable children hideously failed by the State’s multicultural obsessions.

Stop the hate

THE anti-Semitic, pro-Hamas, Islamist hate marchers insist they are not anti-Semitic, pro-Hamas, Islamist hate marchers.

That they merely want peace in Gaza.

So why march past a synagogue on Saturday while a service is going on?

How can Mayor Sadiq Khan claim London is open to all when Jews feel unsafe even in their place of worship?