If it takes a minister looking a prat on YouTube for voters to notice helpful policies, then all to the good.
Besides, many resent being legally coerced into funding a service whose worldview is completely at odds with their own.
The two-year freeze in the licence fee announced yesterday by the Culture Secretary leaves the question of how to reform the Corporation unresolved.
Plus: Biden won fair and square, Trump’s allegations of fraud have been dismissed by the courts – and one can be a conservative and say so.
We should be able to choose whether we support the BBC with our wallets – the economic case for licence fees has evaporated.
A small community radio station with a few thousand listeners requires a license, but a social media channel with millions of individual subscribers does not.
I’ve been nervous after last time – but here goes. Plus: Farage is having a dreadful campaign. And why election night TV will never be the same again.
My generation are a generation who don’t watch TV and don’t read newspapers – but do watch YouTube and get their news from Facebook.
The companies are on solid ground over encryption; their footing is less sure, however, when it comes to pro-terror material on the net.
We are seeing the rise of the outrider. These ‘non-party campaigns’ often spring up in and around elections – with the public in the dark about their funding.