Might one detect "the determination of a quiet man" in the last minute move to make the BBC cover free tv licences for the Over-75s out of its income ?
It feels more like the work of ring-savvy Ian Duncan Smith at the Department for Work and Pensions, than the younger team at the DCMS. IDS was given the Michael Crick treatment on Newsnight in 2002 for elements of his cv which seemed to be rather inflated; oddly it seemed to be Michael Crick who broke the story last night.
The BBC is scrabbling round trying to claim it's an inappropriate use of licence fee income, but that's hard to make stick. Their anxiety is heightened by the fact that if introduced, it's progressive, as the population lives longer..
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