Mark making

Super-excited that the soaraway Times (prop Rupert Murdoch) has found space for a ringing endorsement of a recent Institute of Economic Affairs paper on ending the BBC Licence Fee, written unsurprisingly by the Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs, Mark Littlewood.

Mark is not a recent convert to this thinking:

May 2015: "Most television programmes should be paid for by carrying adverts, charging subscriptions or on a pay-per view basis."

September 2010 "I think they should be obliged to package up their product and try and convince me to buy it, rather than forcing me to."

October 2007 "An enforced annual subscription of £135 is anachronism."

Mark, 47, (The Forest School, PPE Balliol College, Oxford) is a Southampton FC fan. His September piece for The Times ? “The early evidence suggests that the wide availability of nicotine substitutes, which are genuinely attractive to smokers, is a key ingredient of improving public health.” I wonder who makes most of these substitutes...