Category Archives: Authoritarianism

Britbox And The TV Tax

It’s not a public service, but a business, in competition with other business, and as such has no place getting unfair advantage in the market through state guaranteed funding by law and charter.

BBC To Send ‘Outreach Officers’ To Remind Elderly To Pay TV Tax

The kind and generous BBC will be sending their TV Tax Inspectors round… I mean their ‘outreach officers’, to make sure granny has paid for her license now it’s not free. I’m still amazed that such a license requirement exists. It’s an archaic funding model

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Pushing Back Against Cultural Marxism

It has been said that those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it. While this is true of so many things, the cultural marxist revolution we are now experiencing is perhaps the most insidious of them. One of the most infamous movements of

Pincer Movement

The round of protests following the elections of both Trump and May seem to echo a previous time when street protesters have been harnessed, funded and egged-on in an effort to bring about political change far beyond the scope of that imagined by those protesting.

EU Proposes Satellite Tracked Road Tax

Such taxation is currently achieved through fuel duties imposed at the pump, which of themselves levy taxes based on consumption which, in turn, is based on distance travelled.