After speaking with some of my constituents about TV licences for the over-75s, I promised to provide my view. The BBC’s decision to stop funding free TV licences for most over-75s is disappointing. The Government’s position on the licence fee is as follows: It is important to note that this […]
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BBC Charter Review campaign response
The BBC is one of the nation’s most important institutions which is recognised internationally as a maker of high quality content. Ten years ago, the last time the Government ran a Charter Review, the media landscape looked very different. The BBC has adapted to this changing landscape, and remains much-loved […]
Read MoreTomorrow’s most important political event?
Tomorrow, the BBC Radio 4 programme Analysis features Jamie Whyte’s Keeping the Free Market Faith at 20:30: The financial crisis has made many on the political right question their faith in free market capitalism. Jamie Whyte is unaffected by such doubts. The financial crisis, he argues, was caused by too much state interference […]
Read MorePaul Goodman on the LibDems’ abstention today
I was under the misapprehension that, since this is a Coalition Government, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats take the same whip. This misunderstanding was buttressed by the Number 10 website, which lists Alistair Carmichael as a Deputy Chief Whip (and number three in the Whips’ Office). via Are Liberal Democrat MPs […]
Read MoreBriefly at least, the Great British people joyfully shrugged off the burdens of a pessimistic and despairing elite
Zadok the Priest, I Vow to Thee My Country and Land of Hope and Glory played together on the BBC? A public and press rounding on the Beeb for their lamentable coverage of the Diamond Jubilee? A joy. Occasionally, someone – too often someone frothing at the mouth – will speak or […]
Read MoreSomething to look forward to from the BBC on money and banking (perhaps)
In this mad age of yet further taxpayer-backed lending, the BBC’s new series may or may not be something to look forward to: More here.
Read MoreThe BBC’s Robert Peston – Britain’s Banks: Too Big to Save?
My Cobden Centre colleagues Toby Baxendale and Gordon Kerr appear in this documentary by Robert Peston, Britain’s Banks: Too Big to Save? It’s not bad at all but it’s vital we shift the focus from bashing bankers, which may be satisfying, but which is a sideshow compared to the flaws in […]
Read MoreOn complaining to the BBC
Further to this story: Dear Mr Baker Thank you for contacting us regarding remarks made by David Baddiel about Norris McWhirter and the Freedom Association on The Alan Davies Show on BBC Radio 5 Live broadcast on Saturday 18 December. On the show David Baddiel was discussing a television film […]
Read MoreThe Sun Says
The Beeb is today the pompous voice of defeated socialism. via The Sun Says.
Read MoreSurviving the BBC on the EU
On Thursday, I gave an interview of about ten minutes to the BBC’s Daily Politics show regarding the EU budget. A section was transmitted today in their story Brussels bashing ‘back in fashion’ with new Tory MPs: They didn’t use the section in which I supported the excellent Justine Greening MP. They didn’t […]
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