If licence fees are decriminalised, the BBC could lose £200 million a year in unpaid debts. Adopting a subscription system would be fairer and free it from political control
A new House of Commons report sets out the issues for the forthcoming review of the BBC Charter. It calls for the abolition of the BBC Trust and a long-term replacement for the licence fee.
A role not mentioned so far in the obituaries. In memoriam.
The broadcasters can't "empty chair" the Prime Minister - he may well get what he wants.
A new book throws startling new light on how Britain went to war in 1914, and how it published a deceptive document to try and explain the decision: what the author calls “a dodgy dossier”.
Claire Enders, the redoubtable media analyst, has taken a pasting today from over one hundred Guardian readers angered by her pessimistic prognosis for Scottish media, should “yes” prevail on Thursday.
Diane Langford is angered by a BBC2 drama that purports to reflect the political realities in the Arab/Israeli conflict, yet in its “even-handedness” inescapably misrepresents the issues. But perhaps we are being told: don’t take all this plot stuff too seriously – I am writing drama, not history
Lord Birt suggests a yes vote in Scotland would be a threat to the BBC. It needn't be.
BBC's Head of Policy, James Heath, packs a staggering amount of untruths into a single post on the BBC blog.
An examination of the recent flow of speeches and deal proposals by leading media players, to see what clues to the future of the BBC they offer.
The task of driving invasions of privacy out of press behaviour does not require constant invocation of the death of 13-year-old Milly Dowler a dozen years ago.
David Elstein responds to Adrian van Klaveren and Mark Hayhurst's defence of their WW1 programming.
