Ignorant on so many levels. But of course the Tories favour subscription: they can’t understand why TV and radio shouldn’t only be available to those who could afford the (totally unaffordable for most of us) level at which it would have to set. The BBC is founded on the principle of universalism.
Leadership hopeful says BBC should look at Netflix model and says there is no problem with accepting gifts as an MP if declared properly
I think it should become a British custom that every year a different pair of actors play Prince Andrew and Emily Maitlis in yet another iteration of *that Newsnight interview. It could be a festive tradition like Dinner For One in Germany.
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… Still, the College is a very amenable place. And the Archive Centre has an extraordinary collection. If challenging in its own way. Looking at unpublished accounts of the liberation of Belsen in 1945, transcripts of prisoner of war interrogations, etc…
… My family were from industrial south Wales: coal miners or steelworkers on both my father’s and my mother’s sides. To a man and a woman they were brought up to revile Churchill - and would boo loudly whenever he appeared in a cinema newsreel during wartime. Plenty of reasons why, as we know…
A strange few days. At Churchill College, Cambridge, for extended archive stuff. A lovely college, even in the rain. But lots of Churchilliana scattered around - of course…
Only one of these transport choices is the future for cities. 💖🚲 Taken today in Oxford by my friend Guy.
