pop-ups recently started getting pop—ups from the bbc on the news channel telling me that bbc news hd wilsondard definition, although i can watch it on the iplayer if i wish in high definition. this does seem a retrograde step to me, so to get my hd news, i will need to go into the apps, open bbc iplayer, find the news channel, select live news, which for a while for it to load up, assuming i've got internet speed fast enough, then get my news couple of minutes after everybody else. imagine if this were a sports channel in the world cup winning goal had just been scored and you found out about 82 minutes after the rest of the world. by the way, i am filming this in high definition on my phone but of course, if you're watching it on the bbc, you won't be able to watch it in high definition unless you're watching on iplayer. those in charge of the bbc often speak about impartiality being one of the corporation's cheap qualities but the perception has grown recently that it is not fulfilling its remit in this regard. when he took up his post in 2020, the director—general spoke of the need to re