line up a series of people to criticise and condemn everything that this government or the scientists have tried to do. if you were more supportive as well as critical, we would become more confident. i ve got to a stage now where i never watch your news unless absolutely necessary, and i ve resorted to other channels. not that they are a lot better, but they don t continually try and upset a whole nation. linda bryce there. and geoff cooling e mailed us this week with this. but julie coyne had a different perspective writing on thursday. well, the health editor for bbc news, hugh pym, has scarcely been off our screens over the past few months and a couple of weeks ago he won this year s charles wheeler award for outstanding contribution to broadcastjournalism. and hejoins me now. the public mood around covid has really changed since march, hasn t it? genuine disagreement nationwide about lockdown measures and i wonder if you think there are dangers for the bbc in putting tho