To be fair it is a BBC site - if they started reporting times in UTC then it would just confuse the vast majority of their readers.
If the BBC's Science Correspondent had mostly been concerned with not confusing the vast majority of users, they'd have quoted the time of descent in BST first and qualified it with GMT and others. Instead they gave their preferred "standard" time first and then qualified it with a daylight savings time that is currently relevant to the vast majority of the BBC's readers.
Agreeing on a set of weights and measures not so much.