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Lose BBC local radio but save World Service

You will have noticed, naturally, that the BBC has stopped broadcasting in Arabic. By way of compensation, when in April conflict erupted in Sudan, the corporation introduced for a limited season an emergency “pop-up” service to convey news in indigenous languages.

In truth, it is unlikely this morsel of media intelligence registered on your radar any more than it did on mine, until I read in a heavyweight American publication a polemic denouncing a British act of barbarism. The World Service has become collateral damage in the Tory war on the BBC.

In the new age of multi-dimensional international hostilities, most conspicuously against the Russians but also other semi-declared foes including Iran and China, our armed forces can contribute only on the margin. We do,

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