BBC Broadcasting House
(Picture: PA)It may well be one of those gaze-averting feline corpses, but news that the BBC licence fee could be axed before the decade is up has nonetheless given rise to yet another existential debate about the nation’s broadcaster — and who should be responsible for securing its future.
The question of whether we should all be obliged to chip in and pay is something that, like pretty much everything else, has become fiercely politicised in recent years. Is it a rod to beat the backs of elderly pensioners with little money to spare? Is it a relic, a symptom of an archaic organisation that refuses to modernise? Or is it a life-sustaining income source for one of this nation’s finest ever creations?
