There are institutions so deeply stitched into the national fabric that we forget they were ever built at all. The BBC is one of them. It did not simply appear as a natural feature of British life; it was constructed — deliberately, ambitiously — as a civic project rooted in the belief that a nation … Continue reading
Licence-fee payers should be handed a stake in the BBC by becoming its shareholders, Tessa Jowell has proposed. The former secretary of state for culture, media and sports called for the BBC to be transformed into a publicly owned mutual in order to ensure more accountability and responsiveness. The mutualisation of the BBC was one … Continue reading