Tbh disagreeing with an individuals stated way of keeping bees is one thing, disagreeing with the periodical printing it is another.
I will paint my colours to the mast and say I always enjoy reading the magazine and of course people say things with which I disagree - but that’s absolutely fine - because other times people mention things I had never even thought of.
Producing a magazine for a membership with as diverse a geographical, philosophical, social and experience range as the BBKA is always going to be a challenge. The BBKA has a reasonably high annual membership churn and there will always be a thirst for beginner level info. As we all know that advice is often based on basic geographically illiterate truisms that many of us have long come to question be it pagden swarm control, bee choice, hive choice use of matchsticks whatever.
I am sure the wish to print a range of membership opinions and thoughts will always include stuff even the editors personally might’ve disagreed with but short of causing actual harm, would we really want to read a censored membership mag reflecting one persons beekeeping opinions ? The days of Herrod-Hempsall are long behind us.
Compared to the wild tosh about honey bees in the wider media, a few points made I personally disagree with is but small beer. Peer reviewed scientific papers for professional researchers are all very well but if a bee mag stipulated all articles had to be subject to a bee thought police committee I doubt there would be more than one membership generated article a year. And who would those beekeeping Time Lords be?
Having once edited my local divisional newsletter for a decade I found that aside from a few bits nicked from other newsletters, I ended up writing most of the content every month and if you did ever think to “edit” a contribution it would be the last you recieved.
Personally I rather enjoy it when one author says do “x” on page three and a few pages on another says “y” in precisely the same circumstances! Confusing maybe but certainly reflects the reality of beekeeping advice! Let’s face it BBKA News is a monthly collation of individual diverse articles by those prepared to write and submit them, not a serialised manual of beekeeping.