Ah, I love the smell of naked tribalism in the evening

The BBC is all that stands between us and the nympho dwarves
If the anti-BBC brigade want a taste of a world without the licence fee, they should try TV in the US

Is 'anti-BBC brigade' one of those nifty catch-alls like 'climate deniers', which cobble together any and all into a conveniently pejorative group that keeps the group-think groupies happy, but actually just lazy or, in the case of 'professional' 'journalism', so vague and sloppy as to be meaningless.

It puts those who use it in good company, mind. Last time I heard 'if you are not with us you're against us', it was from a certain President who was not so in favour.

There is much to commend in the BBC's output, which reflects well on the staff who care enough to do a good job producing it.

But there is also much, waaaaay too much, that I personally believe crosses all sorts of lines, from taste that is not 'edgy', to 'enhanced narratives' that blow objectivity clean out of the water.

And as I am forced to co-fund all this, and see it getting more egregious, at the very least I would like the right to comment, and even look at alternatives to influencing poor service delivery standards that seem currently locked in Arthur Dent's Council's filing cabinet. I can change my MP, the guy that helps keep my country running, much more easily, and at more regular intervals, which tends to keep him... responsive (just had the latest 'Sod off, we're right, you're wrong, and what can you do about it? But we'll raise it at the next sensitivity training' reply from Aunty's ever-farcical complaints bot).

In the real world, the one where income generators only get paid if folk voluntarily fork out money for what they do (not including funded and/or subsidised luvvy commercial 'businesses' ), the argument that things shouldn't be criticised or, heaven forfend, fail, for not delivering to customer expectations, especially on the basis that others, elsewhere, are 'worse', is a pretty shaky one to kick off with.

And having watched BBC... ahem... 'news' this morning, I'd have to say that amongst the skateboarding turtle levels of 'events interpretation' I was treated to, a nymphomaniac dwarf might have elevated the standard considerably.