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OPINION - When it ran in fright over Róisín Murphy, the BBC betrayed its purpose

• In his biography of his father Richard, Jonathan Dimbleby writes of his father’s shame at the timidity of the BBC during the Spanish Civil War. It is a reminder that, even when they do nothing, institutions are taking sides. The latest instance of institutions making judgments about individual conduct is the case of Róisín Murphy, the Irish singer.