25-11-2025 18:30 via metro.co.uk

Author accuses BBC of censoring Radio 4 broadcast critical of Trump

Rutger Bregman has called out the BBC for censorship (Picture: Paco Freire/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)The BBC and historian Rutger Bregman have clashed over the removal of a line from his lecture, which he has called ‘censorship’.In his Reith Lecture, A Time Of Monsters, the author described Donald Trump as ‘the most openly corrupt president in American history’.This was removed from the Radio 4 broadcast, which aired at 9am on Tuesday, which the BBC said h
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