The BBC is the heart of the UK’s media system. Yet despite the BBC being publicly funded, the public have no control over how it works.

Politicians have too much power to pressure the BBC, and it is struggling to compete against global streaming services and social media companies. Without radical reform, the BBC faces a bleak future of dwindling audiences and the loss of public trust.

A new report explains how to transform the BBC into a public service mutual, a genuinely democratic institution owned and controlled by the British public.

Published by the Media Reform Coalition and the think tank Common Wealth, the report recommends removing government control over the BBC and giving ‘BBC members’ – the entire British public – defined rights and powers to become actively and directly involved in the BBC’s operations.

Read the briefing on how to mutualise the BBC: