God bless the House of Lords. As much as I struggle with the fact that they aren’t elected, I can’t deny that they make some very good judgments. The most recent came earlier this week when they refused to hear a case brought by the activist group Christian Voice attempting to prosecute the BBC for […]

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A conversation on another blog got me thinking about my various arguments against the BBC Licence Fee. One of them I recreated in a flow chart, below. Click the category BBC to browse my previous articles on this topic, or click the flow chart for a larger version.

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In a conversation on the BBC blog Will & Testament, I made the following comments which relate to some of my earlier articles regarding the BBC:
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To understand the BBC, you must understand the UK. I would describe Britain as having one foot in America, one foot in Europe. This is evident culturally and […]

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The BBC’s future role, function and structure have been set out in a White Paper published by the UK government. I’m looking at a copy of it now.
It is nothing short of insulting. It’s insulting to consumers of British media. It’s insulting to legitimate British broadcasters. It’s insulting to the law-abiding […]

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For the benefit of American readers and as a healthy, timely reminder to my fellow Brits who can quite easily become used to the idea: the TV licence fee is a communist mechanism which provides the BBC a unique, privileged source of income from television-owning households in the United Kingdom on an involuntary basis […]

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Today, if you are a TV License Fee payer, you should be feeling extremely pissed off. What did you get for your OBLIGATORY license fee today? The license fee that you pay under threat of jail for doing nothing other than watching television? The BBC: funded at gunpoint? (I love writing […]

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Just over a year ago, I contributed as a consultation respondent to Stage One of the BBC Charter Review, demanding that the BBC be funded by private means instead of a forceful measure of law as it is today (see that contribution in the March 29, 2004 archives).
In addition to my own contribution to the […]

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Sir,
Firstly I would like to say that I am a fan of significant portions of the BBCs past output, particularly its comedy. The quality of its broadcasting has always been of a high standard, and I remain influenced by the BBC in general, whether it be radio or television.
I am not a fan of […]

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