“But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbour.” — Galatians 6:4
Following its launch in May 2023, the BBC told the British Government that its BBC Verify has the following remit:
“BBC Verify are tasked with fact-checking, verifying video, countering disinformation, analysing data and explaining complex stories in the pursuit of truth. They work to pull back the curtain on our journalism to show audiences the incredible hard work going on behind the scenes at BBC News to check and verify the information we share with our audiences.” — BBC written evidence submitted to House of Lords Communications and Digital Select Committee inquiry, February 2024
It was launched by the disgraced ex-BBC News CEO, Deborah Turness, who ironically was forced to resign following the public embarrassment of the BBC being caught deceptively splicing Donald Trump’s speech on 6th January 2021.
Several media commentators (including other members of the mainstream media) have asked the question, “Who verifies the verifier?” This is because BBC Verify has only taken on the task of verifying all journalists’ work… except its own.
Hence, Citizen BBC Verify was launched to hold BBC Verify accountable for its work. So far, we’ve asked BBC Verify to comment on articles revealing the modus operandi of the BBC and its people:
- The End is Nigh for the BBC… Verify That?!
- The BBC’s “Progressive Madness”: Insider Exposes BBC Toxic Bias
- Marianna Spring: The Disinformation Expert Who Lied on Her CV
At the time of writing (28th September 2026), there’s been no reply to legitimate journalistic questions asked of a team that promotes itself as experts in discerning fact from fiction.
Our latest email involves Paul S. Waugh asking the BBC Verify team to conduct a rigorous analysis and fact-checking exercise on his open letter to BBC journalist Catrin Nye entitled “God Help You, Catrin Nye.”
Below is the letter sent on 26th September 2026. We will update you on what, if any, response we receive from the 61 BBC Verify staff whose salaries are paid for by the British public.
RE: BBC Verify – God Help You Catrin Nye: An Open Letter From Paul S. Waugh
BBC Verify Team,
Last week I sent the open letter, “God help you, Catrin Nye”, to 842 BBC staff, along with senior political and media figures including the British Prime Minister, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, the US President as well as the Chief Executive of Ofcom. This open letter to Catrin Nye has been written, published and sent to call out the way that the BBC has been lying to and deceiving the British public in the name of the public interest.
I am writing to you in your role as part of the BBC Verify team. You are backed by approximately £4 billion a year in licence fee income. BBC Verify has cost the licence fee payer at least £10 million since it was set up in 2023 by the disgraced ex-BBC News CEO Deborah Turness. This licence fee revenue has been obtained by instilling fear of being criminalised and has provably funded lies that have been broadcast to millions in the so-called public interest.
As someone who has been a faithful licence fee payer for decades (both for myself and vulnerable people who feared being incriminated for not being able to afford the licence fee), I want you to pour in all of your expertise and resources into investigating the reality of my open letter to Catrin Nye and all the surrounding issues. BBC Verify was set up to discover fake news, now I am challenging the BBC to verify itself and root out the lies to the public made in the public interest.
Bring your journalistic experience. Bring your rigour. Bring your technology. Scrutinise every single word… use AI technology to the max to give this the most thorough analysis in BBC Verify history! I challenge you to do so, because truth ultimately must be the victor… not me, not you… the truth that the BBC needs to advertise it is so relentlessly seeking in its fight for truth. Why advertise such a message? Because the BBC has lied to and deceived the public countless times in the name of public interest. Yet citizens have been coerced to pay for these lies with the constant fear of being prosecuted if they do not.
To guide you in your investigation, I have some pertinent questions to ask:
1 Is it made abundantly clear in this letter that I want absolutely no harm to come to Catrin Nye, Jamie Bartlett, and their families?
2 Why will Catrin Nye not accept a live interview with all the sources, all the evidence, for the top claims made in her sham podcast and propaganda pantomime hit piece, A Very British Cult?
3 If Catrin Nye really isn’t willing to sit down with me to face the facts (she said to me she wanted them?!), then can we have a backup like Jamie Bartlett, who was also in the team that produced A Very British Cult?
4 Lighthouse Global was set up as a research community seeking to understand why everyday citizens fail to realise their God-given human potential. Not only that, but through our empirical research since 2004, we’ve been pursuing solutions to solve this problem that causes so much pain and suffering. Why do Catrin Nye and the BBC want to absolutely destroy myself and others at Lighthouse along with this life critical work?
5 Is Catrin Nye’s right to privacy greater than pointing out the life destruction work of the BBC on the citizens that are forced to fund it and who are supposed to be served by you as the state broadcaster?
6 What do you and the BBC have to say about the two choices that they’ve left Lighthouse associates with as a result of your life-destruction work through A Very British Cult? (i.e. that we either: 1. roll over and die, or 2. peacefully campaign for a full and fair comprehensive right of reply.)
7 Why is the BBC and its leadership putting Catrin Nye and her family through all of this when they could very easily arrange to sit down and sort out this issue once and for all as mature, reasonable adults?
8 Why won’t the BBC accept the full evidence, facts, context, and truth when it comes to Lighthouse, our work and the maliciously false claims made in A Very British Cult?
9 Which of the four scenarios of BBC institutional failure and life destruction apply to its approach toward Lighthouse in particular? Namely:
– Scenario 1: A Coordinated Smear and Life-Destruction Campaign against Human Potential Research.
– Scenario 2: Sensationalism and Fabricated Life-Destruction Narratives.
– Scenario 3: Gross Incompetence Leading to Systematic Life Destruction.
– Scenario 4: All of the Above Driven by Ideological Suppression.
10 What is the total cost of A Very British Cult? (i.e. costs involved with production, legal consultation, denial of a right of reply etc). How can the BBC justify this immense human, material, and financial cost to the licence fee payer?
11 Why will the BBC not grant a minimum of a 5-hour response to ensure impartiality when it comes to the claims made about Lighthouse Global and myself in A Very British Cult?
And some bonus questions…
12 How does the BBC justify criminalising single mothers and the elderly for non-TV licence fee payment?
13 We’ve produced the most thorough, comprehensive and accurate register of those sexually abusing children who have a connection or affiliation with the BBC. What, if any details are incorrect, missing or need to be added? See: The BBC Paedophilia and Sexual Abuse Register.
14 Why was there no response to the questions asked in relation to Marianna Spring about her deception perpetrated through her CV?
15 Will the BBC Verify take on the challenge to verify all the claims made in A Very British Cult?
My open letter is also enclosed below and accessed through this link. There’s also a commentary series that analyses the content of what I’ve written in this letter, such is the depth and substance.
– Part One: When Citizens Sacrifice Citizens — Catrin Nye, the BBC and Personal Responsibility for Life Destruction
– Part Two: Why Is the BBC Taking Us So Seriously Now?
– Part Three: Projection — When Life Destroyers Put Their Destruction on Their Target
– Part Four: Catrin Nye, Jamie Bartlett and the BBC — Why Won’t You Sit Down and Face the Truth?
– Part Five: Diabolically Controlling Optics Rather Than Facing the Truth
– Part Six: Why Didn’t Catrin Nye Show You What Paul’s Letter Actually Says?
So far Catrin Nye has only been able to comment on the length of the email, but not its content. I hope that you are able to demonstrate the journalistic rigour that your role on the BBC Verify team is supposed to require. This letter is part of a series of actions that are catalysts to ensuring that the public will no longer be forced to pay to be lied to by the BBC.
I look forward to hearing your response, in which again, I call for the truth to be the victor.
Resolutely,
Paul S. Waugh
CEO of Lighthouse
What BBC Verify’s Silence Reveals
The silence so far from BBC Verify’s non-response to our questions about its purpose and conduct is deafening. It is yet another reference and example of the BBC Savile Syndrome in action. The BBC wants to be seen as an angel of light. This means that it absolutely detests having its darkness and evil revealed for the world to see.
This is why we see BBC staff exhibit an absolute hatred for us and our work at Lighthouse.
We will leave you with how the unrepentant demons at the BBC could not help but show their true colours when we were shining a light on the deception and the abuse perpetrated by the BBC and its people through peaceful protests in the summer of 2024.
But on the lighter side of dark…
BBC Verify ought to be the Gold standard in investigative journalism accuracy. Yet does it look inwards or does it just try and do what the BBC usually do ie project outwards. The British public deserve to know the truth.
Watching the video brings back memories of our time peacefully protesting outside the BBC. The BBC staff weren’t so peaceful. The act of standing there holding up placards with the reality of the abuse that the BBC has inflicted on children and the licence fee payer was too much for some.
I recall the shock that the second staff member featured in this video (Daniel De Simone) received when we called him by his first name on a subsequent protest. He looked far from the tough-guy Terminator wannabe who was trying to psyche us out with some kind of power stare.
As for the first lady, may God help her. The same applies to the rest of the BBC staff… these were clearly not happy, healthy people. It’s apparent that working for the BBC would’ve probably been their dream job, but it was failing to meet their expectations given the looks on the staff’s faces as they walked into work. Meanwhile we discovered that staff were told by their managers not to talk to us. Who’s the coercively controlling cult?!?
Brilliant video. It depicts exactly what those inside the BBC are like, if not all of them, then certainly a significant number of them. What is so damning is that the BBC appears willing to scrutinise and ‘verify’ others, while failing to apply the same level of scrutiny to itself and its own actions. We can all see what the BBC has done to so many, not least through cases involving Jimmy Savile, Rolf Harris, Huw Edwards and Stuart Hall.
God bless the victims of those perpetrators and predators.
Thank you for this update and for shining a light on the truth. God bless. 🙏
‘The ‘who verifies the verifier?’ question is incredibly powerful because it goes right to the heart of accountability. If the BBC Verify team is genuinely committed to pursuing truth through rigorous verification, then that same standard must be willing to turn towards the BBC itself. simply!
…but we it coming very clear the BBC doesn’t play but those rules. Verification cannot be a principle that only applies outwards. If truth really is the objective, then nothing should be beyond examination, including the examiner itself. That is where genuine accountability begins.
What I love is: Who verifies the verifier? This is a huge question and, in the BBC case, needs to be answered. They are a media outlet, and they need to publish the truth and STOP fabricating it.
I’ve said it before: I value this site because what you are doing is fact-checking, verifying information and NOT manipulating it. You are correcting the record…
Love the video; thank you for the work you put into putting this together…
This begs the question: how much is BBC Verify really interested in truth, especially when it is close to home and concerns the BBC, with all its crimes and paedophilia? It’s easy to verify yourself and give yourself a good mark!
The video also says it all about the character of those working at the BBC, and these are certainly not the only ones with questionable character and attitudes.
The truth is the truth and the whole of BBC Verify and BBC News ought to be seeking that every day – as they so proudly claim. In which case if this is true, then I look forward to their answers to these questions!
I really love this article because ‘Who verifies the verifier?’ is such a powerful and necessary question, especially when an organisation presents itself as a champion of rigorous fact-checking and truth. I really appreciate the direct challenge to BBC Verify to apply that same scrutiny to itself, because truth cannot be a standard we impose on others while exempting ourselves. Ultimately, genuine verification must be willing to follow the evidence wherever it leads, even when it leads back to the institution doing the verifying.
The video brought back a lot of memories that revealed just how suited many of the BBC employees are to an institution like this….another area that needs verification desperately is who they are employing. Their track record with employing and enabling sexual abusers, is diabolical…
As usual, the BBC only want to verify what suits them. If it doesn’t suit them, there is no interest or urgency whatsoever, especially when what needs verifying is themselves.