Alex Salmond has launched a blistering assault on the BBC for its reporting on the Queen's loss of life.
The former first minister accused the broadcaster of "bias" and "historic ignorance" for the way in which it had adopted occasions since the monarch's passing at Balmoral Fortress final week.
Salmond praised Scotland for making a "constructive contribution" to the week of nationwide mourning for a "actually outstanding woman" - however claimed the BBC's protection had been "jarring".
The Alba celebration chief is a frequent critic of the broadcaster and has beforehand accused it of being "anti-independence".
In a Twitter thread posted final night time, Salmond mentioned: "The BBC have badly let individuals down of their protection of the Queen’s passing.
"The continued try and applicable a show of Scottish respect and affection for our late monarch to hawk a state political line, exhibits the extent of BBC departure from broadcasting requirements."
He continued: "In the middle of a outstanding three days, we will a minimum of say that Scotland has accomplished the Queen proud.
"I'm in little question that she deliberate the entire thing precisely because it transpired and the solemnity, with out flummery, is what she would have needed. It was appropriately
"Within the case of the BBC, journalists and contributors queue as much as parade their historic ignorance however obvious certainty of the late Queen’s opinions with out the profit, for essentially the most half, of ever having a critical private dialog together with her.
"BBC bias and the pointless, and fully pointless, arrest of a handful of protesters have been the one jarring notes in an in any other case becoming and constructive Scottish contribution and appreciation for this actually outstanding woman."
The broadcaster received reward for the way in which it introduced the loss of life of the Queen final Thursday, with one London newspaper describing it as “easy however magisterial protection”.
However the cancellation of many primetime exhibits and hours of prolonged information studies of the Queen's funeral procession by way of the nation has prompted many complaints on social media.
Salmond has repeatedly criticised the BBC prior to now for the way in which it reported on the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.
In 2016, he mentioned: "Independence campaigners needs to be clear that one factor is unlikely to alter between IndyRef one and two – and that's the blatant anti-independence bias of BBC information bulletins.”
The File has requested the BBC for remark.
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