BBC Radio 4 reports:
[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/v78MKsCWHxw0l0PwMn4R0R/bbc-reith-lectures-2025-moral-revolution]
This year's BBC Radio 4 Reith lecturer has been announced as historian and best-selling author Rutger Bregman.
Rutger Bregman says, "I’m deeply honoured to give this year’s Reith Lectures. Across history, moments of decadence and decay have often been followed by movements of renewal, times when people redefined what it means to live with integrity and ambition. I believe we are at such a crossroads today. These lectures are my attempt to explore how moral ambition can help us face the challenges of our age."
Yes, the moments of decadence and decay - Biden, wokery, Black Lives Matter, unfair and unrepresentative sport, unrestricted illegal immigration, fake news - they are over.
Well maybe not fake news.
We are now in a movement of renewal as people reject the nonsense of the past decade or so and move forward with integrity and ambition.
Or are this year's lectures just an excuse for more Trump-bashing as Paul Staines suggests in The Spectator?
[https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/inside-the-bbcs-trump-bashing-reith-lecture]
The BBC just can't help itself - it insists on adding more fuel to its legal bonfire.