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The BBC has been left in disarray after a tumultuous week marked mistakes, resignations and the threat of a $1bn presidential lawsuit. But, writes Alan Rusbridger, the biggest risks of bias are in the boardroom, not the newsroom

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hen the saga of the double-decapitation of the two most senior BBC executives comes to be written, historians might care to trace it back to Dougie Smith, a shadowy backroom fixer once described as the most powerful political figure you’ve never heard of.