The BBC is best placed to know the truth about what happened at their impartiality summit last month. Someone leaked some of the comments to the press and as a consequence the world may be receiving a one-sided and misleading account of the summit. Senior figures, according to reports, admitted that the BBC is guilty of promoting Left-wing views. But we aren't told whether anyone was concerned about Right-wing bias.

The leaked remarks seem suspiciously 'in tune' with sentiments of certain senior BBC executives - perhaps a devout Christian or someone with American roots. Regular readers of this blog will know that the homophobic ethos of the BBC comes from the top. Until the summit took place, lower down staff have allowed homophobic attitudes and the creeping Right-wing bias to go largely unchallenged. In consequence a few bigoted executives have been emboldened to go further and remark on the "disproportionate" number of people from minorities at the Corporation. These bigots would benefit from a strong dose of Diversity training.

Speculation about the misconceived 'impartiality summit' should be stemmed before more damage is done. We need to know exactly who said what. Leaks cannot be unleaked, so the BBC has no option other than to immediately release the full minutes of the meeting and then investigate who was possibly responsible for bringing the BBC into disrepute by leaking one-sided information to the press.

By and large the BBC is not out of touch politically with people in Britain, but the BBC's failure to report this important story breaks their own editorial guidelines, and does no favours to the BBC's reputation for impartiality. Britain is a comparatively liberal country and, for the most part, the BBC reflects British culture and values.

Convening the summit was a ridiculous mistake, as was the BBC governors' juvenile decision to say that 'gay' means rubbish.