If it was linked directly to competence and neutrality we’d all be getting a substantial refund!
I'd rather all the channels had adverts and we paid nothing. Sometimes the adverts are a better quality than the programs.
I like the BBC and I'm fine with the licence fee, but the Tories have clearly loaded the political part of the corporation now.
I doubt that advertisers would be willing to increase their budgets sufficiently to cover the current expenditure of the BBC. Anybody not watching any channel will still be paying for it. People streaming programmes will lead to reduced income from advertising, leading in turn to worse programming, leading to less income etc.
It couldnt get any worse. I watch lots of foreign TV travelling a lot. The BBC has gone from world beaters to less than 3rd World. The 'telling the Truth slogan was stolen from Eri TV, the state controlled new media organisation of Eritrea. That tells you the level that they have fallen to.
City pay high wages, the Arsenal players move to clubs who are paying them high wages.
But according to far more hacks than seems healthy, it's silverware and silverware alone that keeps players at clubs.
The news now makes Brass Eye seem less and less like a satirical spoof so it's very appropriate.
The *****phile one was surreal.
They got a capital one DJ to say (in all seriousness) that a "*****phile has more in common genetically with a crab than you and I" and he then smashed a crab with a hammer
