Bounding Into Comics Reports: It may have been a merry Christmas holiday for many, but not so for the BBC, as the UK-based public broadcaster has found themselves sour after a new analytical report claimed that their content – from Waterloo Road to Doctor Who – is feeding viewers “a steady diet of woke bias”.

The report, as published by the (for lack of a better definition, as the group does not provide one on their website) ‘anti-woke’ research group Campaign For Common Sense and shared exclusively with local news outlet The Telegraph, surveyed the broadcaster’s “news and drama output” to measure just how much their various programmes focused on such topics as the country’s history of colonialism and gender ideology.

In terms of the former, the group found “a preoccupation by BBC News about Britain’s links to the transatlantic slave trade, with articles about the subject appearing online at a rate of more than one a week in 2023.”



They also noted that two series, Murder is Easy and Waterloo Road, each had a respective episode wherein their production teams hamfistedly attempted to tackle the topic, the first having inserted a colonialism allegory into Agatha Christie’s original story and the second featuring its cast of teenage students protesting against their school’s being named after a historical slave trader.