You can hardly blame her for sticking the boot in. Not from a “taking the moral high ground” perspective but as one who did actually suffer consequences for her rule breaking. It would be different i… (View Post)

You really do a hopeless job of making an argument sometimes. You can hardly deride the Conservatives for making populist pitches to “abolish the licence fee” (as a stealth long term attack on the BB… (View Post)

Anyway, the main thing is that whatever you think about the BBC/licence fee the important thing is that the Cabinet Minister responsible has a firm grasp of her brief and will do a good job of steeri… (View Post)

The licence fee is at least negotiated for a period of several years giving relative funding security/certainty over that period. And the process in theory insulates from the annual spending rounds a… (View Post)

Not sure why it matters whether something can be explained to a foreigner anyway. (Not that the concept of a universally funded service being cheaper for the average consumer, and with a relatively s… (View Post)