Artificial intelligence groupthink exposes old BBC delusions

For once, the dour director-general of the BBC was effusive with his praise. For you, Herr von Ribbentrop, I would gladly fly the swastika from the top of Bush House, John Reith promised the departing German Ambassador in 1938, at a gala BBC event. A year later, after appeasement collapsed in shame as the tanks rolled into Prague, the BBC's first boss was still praising Hitler's "magnificent efficiency". Reith's biographer daughter later confirmed her father had revered the Fuhrer. Regarding jazz music as "hot" and a "filthy product of modernity", the Scot ensured it was banned from the airwaves.