The Beeb was pretty decent during the 1990s before Tony Blair's New Labour government era. I remember in 1993/94 it produced a TV programme about the KGB's fellow travellers and spies among Western political circles, and in it it talked about the KGB's conspiracy and involvement in complicating the American civil rights movements. The programme also reported that a number of race riots in US cities in the late 1960s were the act of the Soviet intelligence service.
It has gone steeply downhill after 1997. Today it has an occasional drama worth watching, but forget about its news or documentaries.
Tompkinson was also in a movie (can't remember the title) about Brit coal miners thrown out of work during the early days of Thatcher's privatization programs. In one scene Tompkinson had a diatribe/soliloquy where he wished that someone would assassinate Thatcher. From those scenes I concluded that (1) Tompkinson was a raging lefty and (2) the BBC had an unusually large amount of deranged lefties working for them. One demurral: I'm not sure if the Beeb produced the flick about the coal miners.
American leftists are busy trying to sell the idea that incomes of $20,000/yr are poverty when they are average for Europe. Somehow, we need to revise our calculations of poverty levels. they just foster resentment in people that are really very rich by comparison with the rest of the world. I can just imagine the objections from the spin machines.