There’s an idea being floated in the ranks of power that the BBC should be made to pay its own way. The concept is that through its own endeavours, the BBC should fund its activities and perform as a commercial organisation would have to. I disagree and I’ll tell you why. If the BBC had [...]
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Why should the BBC pay its own way?
Posted: 10th July 2010 by Martyn in Britain - the great, Capitalism - the End, Digital Britain, Industrial Relations, Mushroom Theory, PoliticsTags: BBC, bbcbroadcastinghouse, British Gas, British Telecom, Broadcasting House, Building Societies, caption, cost, day, does-bbc-pay-for-programmes, government, happy, Internet, Internet Advertising, ITV, Licence Fee, lie, SKY, TV, who-get-the-most-revenue-sky-or-bbc1
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A quiet life
Posted: 2nd July 2010 by Martyn in Britain - the greatTags: 1, According Queeney, Beryl Bainbridge, Beryl Margaret Bainbridge, caption, English, en_zt, Henry Hester Thrale, Hester Thrale, Martin Amis, Muriel Spark, pegatron-drivers-g310de-video, pegatron-drivers-video-card, pegatron-g310de-video-card, Penelope Fitzgerald, Queeney Thrale, Samuel Johnson, Sweet William, Twentieth Century, www-readwrite-co-uk
Beryl Margaret Bainbridge was, my favourite English language writer from the second half of the Twentieth Century. Although the great and the good (The Times greatest British writers since 1945) have her at number twenty-six behind such luminaries as Muriel Spark, Martin Amis and Penelope Fitzgerald. Ah well, so much for the great and the [...]