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The BBC’s democratic role, as a guarantor of different perspectives and a bulwark against disinformation, is to provide a rigorous information base, an accessible space for discussion and debate, and a cultural offering for all, each essential to social cohesion and the vitality of British public life. Recent controversies over the BBC’s ability to live up to its mandate of impartiality are fuelling a process of delegitimisation that directly undermines its founding mission. The BBC, a pillar of British public service broadcasting, is indeed undergoing a new period of turbulence in its century long history.