The BBC...

What BBC presenters are paid is one more issue that isn’t keeping me awake at night. I haven’t had a TV for 15 years or more, and don’t miss it, though that didn’t stop the BBC sending me letters demanding to know why I hadn’t paid my license fee. The idea that I didn’t watch TV seemed inconceivable.

Oh, and those ‘TV detector vans’ were just a ruse, a kind of urban myth. They weren’t actually able to detect who was watching TV without a license…

Bridlington...