Young Viewers switch off the BBC.

by TBG

(Daily Telegraph 20 Jan 2021) A National Audit Office review of BBC Finances has revealed that 450,000 fewer households bought a television licence between 2017 and 2020. In particular the number of under-35s turning away from the BBC places “uncertainty over the BBC’s financial future”.  The Lady Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee said “Each…

Letter To Telegraph: Civil war within the ranks of Scottish secessionists

by TBG

SIR – Your report (March 28) on the civil war within the ranks of Scottish secessionists quotes the Alba-defecting MP for East Lothian, Kenny MacAskill, as saying: “Boris Johnson must not be able to reject Scotland’s democratic rights. Scottish democracy must prevail over a Westminster veto.” Given that the Scottish National Party has spent the last seven…

Historic statue of a Great Englishman must stay!

by TBG

Historic statue of a Great Englishman must stay! Do not attack Britain's heritage for political reasons! To: The Commissioners, Oriel College, Oxford, Rhodes Enquiry. The figure of Cecil Rhodes - that remarkable, multifaceted paternalist of the late-19th and early-20th century - must remain in its place, benevolently looking down upon all who enter Oriel College,…

Prime Minister announces the end of the plague - Mullen

by TBG

Wasn’t it great news to hear the Prime Minister tell us that, after so much suffering and for such a long time, the plague is over? Standing on the steps of Number Ten, he said, “Yes, this is a victory for you all and, thanks to the discipline of the British people, we can lift…

Born here?

by TBG

Civic citizenship is a monstrous revolutionary idea which will strip an ethnic and recogniseable national identity out of a nation.

The island nations

by Committee

Devolution, however, though well-meaning ... has, in general, created an unstable country.