Royal regulator ?

The BBC has taken down its handy, minimum-keystroke complaints page, bbc.co.uk/contact/death-duke-of-edinburgh-tv-coverage. The conspiracy-theory-led conspiracy, #defundtheBBC, deemed its very creation 'disgraceful' - an attempt to drive up complaints, and thus an act of disloyalty comparable with the omission of the Union Flag from the BBC Annual Report. 

The BBC is not at this stage saying how many complaints were recorded before the form disappeared, but, of course, they'll eventually have to tell Kevin Bakhurst at Ofcom the number. In a world of cancel-culture and social media pile-ins, Kevin still sets great store by numbers. Like the Government he reports to, his organisation's strategy is steered by an unhealthy obsession with surveys and polls, now providing giant echo chambers for whatever's going viral in the most recent week. Let's see what Ofcom recommends for coverage of the next major Royal death.