The BBC and RFK Jr

The BBC World Service is an unreliable den of woke box thinkers.

Driving to his dig site in the morning, Tom listens to the BBC World Service. It’s the usual mix of news, views, and old podcasts. Tom half slumbers when he hears stuff he has no interest in, but the other morning, he sat bolt upright as he heard in the folds of the Trump victory story a mention of Bobby Kennedy Jr. (RFK) as somebody who “espouses disinformation on vaccines.” 

We have previously written about the BBC's sad decline in politics and factionalism and its propensity to jump to conclusions without doing the necessary homework first. 

Tom wondered if this was more of the same. So he visited the Library of Character Assassinations (Wikipedia bios) and reviewed RFK’s write-up.

Before going any further, we need to make it clear that we are not partisans of this and that, and we have never met RFK. So we do not really give two Hancocks about the political claptrap or RFK’s personal life, of which there is quite a lot in his Wikipedia entry, perhaps true, perhaps not, perhaps select…