IN the end, the writing was on the wall for Tim Davie and his rough stint at the BBC.
For years the Corporation has felt in a state of permacrisis, lurching from one scandal to the next.
No matter how many “reviews” its senior leadership would launch, another catastrophe was always waiting to blow.
Davie’s time at the top is littered with the bodies of fallen stars: Huw Edwards, Gregg Wallace, Graziano Di Prima … to name but a few.
These sagas alone have been enough for many people to demand heads roll at the very top of the national broadcaster.
But what did it for Davie is his failure to address the unshakeable fears that the BBC has an embedded liberal bias that consistently warps its judgement.
From doctoring a Trump speech, to eulogising the son of a Hamas minister, to streaming an anti-Semitic Glastonbury chant, the BBC has got it so wrong too many times.
One slip-up could be carelessness, but dozens of failures speaks to a wider problem afflicting our national broadcaster.
It has left confidence at rock bottom among decision-makers in Westminster and beyond.
That the White House itself launched a stinging rebuke from across the Atlantic this week was clearly a hammer blow to his position.
But it was just the final nail in a career coffin that had already looked all but sealed.
