BBC mad to think it justifies that £175 fee

IT'S TIME to scrap the BBC licence fee. The £174.50 we're all forced to hand over every year feels less like a payment for public service broadcasting and more like a tax on indifference.

- JJ Anisiobi

I don’t watch the BBC (except for Match of the Day), I don’t listen to their radio stations and yet they still expect me to cough up. For what, exactly? An outdated model that belongs in the same dustbin as VHS tapes and Ceefax.

We live in a world of endless choice - Netflix, YouTube, Spotify, Disney+ and podcasts galore and yet the BBC still acts as if it’s 1984, demanding payment from everyone simply for owning a TV. It’s archaic, unfair and, given the modern media landscape, completely tone-deaf.