BBC report concludes some stars ‘behave unacceptably’

Back to the Beeb, which is better at making the news rather than breaking it these days. Now a new report on the conduct of its employees has concluded that a ‘minority’ of stars and managers ‘behave unacceptably’ at work with chiefs failing to address bad behaviour. The review was ordered by the BBC’s board after the disturbing Huw Edwards case last year, which saw the ex-presenter plead guilty to having 41 indecent images of children. Good heavens…

The BBC-commissioned report interviewed 2,500 of the corporation’s staff members. It found that overall, the institution does not have a toxic work culture, but that there was ‘a minority of people who behave unacceptably and whose behaviour is not addressed’. The review blasted the Beeb for showing ‘inconsistent execution when it comes to dealing with poor performance and bad behaviour’ and remarked that authors had heard ‘examples of well-known names not being held to account for poor behaviour’.