52 h. ago New calls to axe BBC TV licence as thousands say the same thing

An online petition has been launched urging the UK Government to scrap the BBC TV licence fee and bring in a new system

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3 d. ago New call to scrap annual TV licence fee and replace with adverts or paywall

The BBC TV licence fee could rise from £174.50 to £181.15 next April under the current uprating measure.

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5 d. ago BBC showing tennis’s new Battle of the Sexes will just offer up opportunity to belittle women’s sport | Barney Ronay

The match between Aryna Sabalenka and Nick Kyrgios opens up a direct channel between the BBC of old and a world of toxic internet hatredIt’s always best to take a sceptical view of the constant flow of BBC-bashing newspaper stories, which are often simply bogus outrage expressed for commercial gain. Even the war-on-woke, cod-ideological stuff – Clive Myrie INSISTS hamsters can breastfeed human robots – the bits that make you want to smear your face with greengage jam and weep for England, our England, with its meadows, its shadows, its curates made entirely from beef. Even these come from a hard, transactional place.Basically, it’s the licence fee. The BBC is free at the point of delivery, but paid for by a national levy. The BBC is also a direct commercial competitor to every other form of legacy media, all of which are trying to find ways to survive and recoup revenue. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago TV licence fee update as plan for next rise to £181 'could be changed'

The Government is 'weighing up' a decision on the licence fee

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2 w. ago BBC TV licence fee update as next '3.8 per cent' rise 'could be blocked'

The fee had been scheduled to rise once again but that plan has now been thrown into question

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2 w. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Should the BBC be allowed to continue charging a compulsory licence fee?

After years of scandals for the BBC culminating in the dramatic resignations of Director-General Tim Davie, the corporation is coming under increasing scrutiny over its mandatory licence fee.

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2 w. ago ANDREW NEIL: No amount of arm twisting will stem the tide of licence fee refuseniks

Instead of shining a light through the fog of digital distortion which blights all our efforts to learn the truth, BBC News has become part of the problem, not the solution, writes ANDREW NEIL.

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2 w. ago BBC loses £1.1 billion as more viewers cancel or evade TV licence fee

The publishing of the report comes after a number of scandals at the BBC in recent months

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2 w. ago BBC loses £1.1billion as millions of homes refuse to pay the licence fee amid 'bias' storm

The BBC lost more £1.1billion last year as a one in eight households refused to pay the licence fee. While 3.6million households simply said they did not want to use the BBC's services.

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2 w. ago BBC missed out on £1.1 billion in unpaid licence fee payments last year, report reveals

The publishing of the report comes after a number of scandals at the BBC in recent months

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3 w. ago Bias, climate alarmism, and why the BBC licence fee's days are numbered

As the BBC’s Royal Charter comes up for renewal, a review of the funding model is long overdue

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3 w. ago BBC Clothes Show star Jeff Banks boycotts licence fee and accuses 'extremely biased' corporation of harassing him with 'threatening' letters

The acclaimed fashion designer has turned on his former employer, as he reveals that he has cancelled his licence fee and has no desire to engage with BBC content.

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3 w. ago Nigel Farage: It's time to end the BBC's 'appallingly regressive' licence fee

Nigel Farage branded the broadcaster 'rotten to the core', claiming it has become a 'byword for sleaze, hypocrisy, arrogance, anti-Semitism and worse' as it fights for its future.

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3 w. ago NIGEL FARAGE: It's a lie to say Reform wants to abolish the BBC. But we DO want to scrap the licence fee

For years, the flawed BBC has lurched from crisis to crisis, scandal to scandal, writes NIGEL FARAGE. In truth, the organisation is rotten to the core.

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3 w. ago Keir Starmer STILL hasn't spoken to Donald Trump over his threat to sue the BBC for $1bn

No10 said the Prime Minister was yet to hold talks with Mr Trump more than a week on from his threat to leave TV licence fee-payers with a huge bill.

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3 w. ago Elon Musk's Grok turns on billionaire creator and issues warning over AI plans

Grok, the AI chatbot created by Elon Musk, has turned on its billionaire creator and issued a warning over his xAI plans, as well as encouraging people to ditch the BBC licence fee

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3 w. ago BBC should not pay Trump any money, says former director general Tony Hall

Not ‘appropriate’ to use licence fee payer’s money to pay US president after threat to sue for up to $5bn, says peerThe BBC should not pay any money to Donald Trump, the former BBC director general Tony Hall has said.The US president has said he plans to sue the BBC for up to $5bn (£3.8bn) despite receiving the apology he demanded over a misleading Panorama edit of his 6 January speech. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘My TV licence fee shouldn’t be used to compensate Donald Trump’

A petition urging the BBC not to compensate Donald Trump following his $1 billon legal threat has now passed over 45,000 signatures.

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4 w. ago BBC licence fee ‘criminalises people who want to watch television’, Nadine Dorries says

Former Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has attacked the BBC licence fee , arguing the mandatory payment "criminalises people who want to watch television."

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