The BBC's news factory is having a busy August. Traditionally, it's the silly season. The BBC's Central Content Planners have not, perhaps, noticed we still have a war in Ukraine, a country close to spontaneous combustion, a zombie Government awaiting a new zombie leader, and a Prime Minister trying to leave No 10 without further scrutiny of his misrepresentations.
So the research teams have been toiling away with agenda-setting 'investigations'. With extraordinary diligence, they've put a measure on the self-evident truth that it's really hard to get dental treatment under the terms of the National Health Service (with no less than 10 online strands to the story). They've scrutinised doctor and nurse recruitment, to demonstrate that over 1/3 of each group is now recruited from abroad. They've found that some immigrants are trying to avoid deportation through sham marriages. There's undoubtedly more to come, but I'm not sure it's effort that is well-directed.
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