Those will be some expensive nuggets.

Gold plated I imagine, at $1k a pop. He’d like that.

That’s all a fair and valid thing to say and it breaks my heart, truly. I wish we were all as good as the best of us.

Weird, I swear I can remember the makers of GBBO hiking their price and the beeb deciding paying it would no longer represent good value for licence fee payers and it going to an external private broadcaster instead. Maybe I dreamt that bit.

The BBC provides the bulk of the training, technical standards and the wider culture in UK broadcasting and nothing in this country comes close to it in terms of its influence within the industry in the UK so yes, yes I am.

(and I *know* they’re not the same. That’s how analogies work)

I appreciate that. I’d have a right go at the news dept if I was in charge, tbh. There’s a limit on how much criticism I can say publicly about my employer (basically, none). But it’s only a part of the whole. I work for an incredibly diversity-supportive team and News does not represent us.

THOUGHT EXPERIMENT:

Imagine, you live in a country with a nationalised health service, and also private health services are available.

If the nationalised health service was done away with at the stroke of the government’s pen, would you expect the remaining private options to get BETTER or WORSE?

Tax

Not all of it benefits you directly

But all of it benefits the world you live in, which benefits you

Thanks for attending my TED Talk

>50% referendum votes for everything, because that’s a great idea

More people don’t follow you on here than do, thus your opinion is invalid

Because that’s how it’s funded. Other things are funded in different ways. It’s a complex world out there.

instablock right there

nay missus, nay

wild applause at this x

Meanwhile here I am never watching anything sport related and yet somehow happily paying my licence fee like someone who understands how things work

Yeah exactly! It’s not a geniusbrain take, is it? Disappointing

Here’s a fun thing I saw yesterday on this whole thing: