As Seen on BBC News!
Perhaps someone at the BBC thought a mid-week feel-good story was just the ticket at a time of global misery. Perhaps they thought a rags to riches, pull yourself up by the bootstraps tale would be heart-warming motivation to get us through a bleak midwinter Wednesday in lockdown. How and why that story was spun, is more interesting than the tall tale itself. The BBC front page led with the interesting story of Ben Gulliver. A 20-year-old ‘entrepreneur’, Ben started…