David Cameron’s proposed freeze is all very well. But if the BBC really wants to save the license fee, then that fee should be made optional, with as many adults as wished to pay it at any given address free to do so, including those who did not own a television set but who greatly valued, for example, Radio Four. The Trustees would then be elected by and from among the license-payers. Candidate...

After reading a ConHome article about the license fee, it's got me thinking if there's a fairer and more efficient way of funding the BBC. First of all, it needs to be categorically stated that the BBC is a world class public broadcaster and must be protected by the government. It's shameful that so many Tories want to destroy this great British institution. But the license fee is u...

It is time to have the BBC Trust elected by and from among the license-payers, with make the license fee itself optional. It is time to ban any person or other interest from owning or controlling more than one national daily newspaper, to ban any person or other interest from owning or controlling more than one national weekly newspaper, and to ban any person or other interest from owning or contr...

There was a piece on the radio today about the development of wind power in Texas. But, of course they don't have wind farms there, they have wind ranches!

Ivan Lewis, shadow culture secretary, appears to retreat on a proposal to license journalists

This letter of mine appears in The Observer: The BBC license fee should be made optional, with as many adults as wished to pay it at any given address free to do so, including those who did not own a television set but who greatly valued, for example, Radio Four. The Trustees would then be elected by and from among the license-payers. Candidates would have to be sufficiently independent to qualify...

JUSTICE Secretary Kenny MacAskill today unveiled plans to license shops selling non-domestic knives in the latest bid to tackle Scotland's blade culture.

The iPlayer and second-generation Freeview stuff is all well and good. But if the BBC really wants to save the license fee, then that fee should be made optional, with as many adults as wished to pay it at any given address free to do so, including those who did not own a television set but who greatly valued, for example, Radio Four. The Trustees would then be elected by and from among the licens...

Wind energy could easily provide for more than one fourth of the EU's electricity by 2030 provided that wind farms are better connected to existing electricity grids and that a new grid to exploit the offshore wind industry is built, according to a stakeholder action plan detailing research and political priorities for the sector.

Anjem Choudary is brilliant at professional media trolling. He knows exactly what to say, what to do and who to talk to, and also when to do it. As strokes of genius go, nothing is more likely to wind up the nutters outside of his own clique than a half-baked supposed plan to march through Wootton Bassett.