How to really save the BBC
Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC has accidentally done Britain a favour. One 'fake news' moment involving the US president has turned what would normally be a media-page squabble into a question on the doorstep: should every household in the UK continue to pay to receive a live television signal, enforceable by law, to fund the BBC? In a world of monthly subscriptions for global streamers, the licence fee has never felt more like an anachronistic tithe. The British public are fed up with the licence fee BBC Charter renewal – due at the end of 2027 – has become an election issue. There's a chasm that needs to be bridged between the BBC's past and the future.
