Posts Tagged “bbc licence fee”
Liberal Hero of the Week #63: Andrew Bridgen
by Stephen Tall on March 22, 2014
Liberal Hero of the Week (and occasional Villains) is chosen by Stephen Tall, Co-Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice, and Research Associate at CentreForum. Andrew Bridgen Conservative MP for North West Leicestershire Reason: for campaigning successfully to decriminalise non-payment of the BBC licence fee. In 2012, 181,880 people were prosecuted for not paying the BBC licence […]
Guido the Libertarian? Not so much.
by Stephen Tall on April 11, 2013
Paul Staines’ Guido Fawkes blog is calling for the BBC to self-censor itself by refusing to play the song with a title beloved by juvenile anti-Thatcherites Ding Dong the Witch is Dead from ‘The Wizard of Oz’ (the same kind (…)
Create a stronger BBC: abolish the licence fee
by Stephen Tall on January 19, 2013
As a long-term critic of the BBC licence fee, one of the arguments in its defence which has always annoyed me is when an individual programme is highlighted as ‘worth the fee on its own’. That’s just hyperbollox… though I (…)
Yes, the BBC licence fee is doomed. The interesting question is what happens when it’s gone?
by Stephen Tall on November 12, 2012
I first outed myself as opposed to the BBC licence fee six years ago. I still am. But the debate interests me less these days because it’s inevitable the licence fee’s days are numbered: a regressive poll tax to subsidise (…)
