Defend the BBC!
Most of us are acquainted with the phrase: There’s no such thing as a free lunch. Yet when the Government announce that they are going to scrap the licence fee there is a resounding lack of fuss. Because the licence fee is unfair right? It’s a flat tax that spreads the load evenly among an uneven populace. However, with the much-maligned licence fee we actually have something beautifully valuable: a stake in our broadcasting. Let’s be fair it is a small stake for a corporation that produces a dizzying array of output on a daily basis and can compete with much better funded and much less public...