So much to learn about Charles Moore. In 2010, Mr Moore was fined £262, ordered to pay £530 costs and a victim surcharge of £15 by Hastings Magistrates for "using a colour television receiver without a licence".
He had withheld the licence fee - then £139.50 - in protest at the Corporation's failure to sack Jonathan Ross over 'Sachsgate', when the DJ and Russell Brand left lewd messages on actor Andrew Sachs' answer machine during a late night Radio 2 show in 2008.
In 2016, he voted twice in the EU Referendum “In Sussex, I went to the polling station early. I took my polling card, which is not compulsory, and asked the clerk what the significance of the barcode on it was. He had no idea, so presumably it has no security function (or the clerks are poorly trained). I voted to leave the European Union."
“Then I caught a train to London, where I went to my local polling station. There I presented my London polling card, unchallenged. I went into the booth and wrote on the ballot paper ‘I am spoiling my ballot because I have voted already. This second vote is my protest at how lax the voting rules are.’”
In 2019, he was invited to guest edit the Today Programme; Sarah Sands, in charge of the programme, had been Charles' deputy at the Telegraph in the 90s. (Sarah has been on Times Radio, extolling Charles' journalistic record as qualification for the chairmanship of the BBC; The Times has backed Mr Moore for the role in an editorial). Showing no nepotism at all, Mr Moore commissioned a Today feature about his wife and her lifelong interest in moths.
You may think they just eat your jumpers, but they are much more than that. In this week's Nature Notes, moth enthusiast Caroline Moore - wife of our guest editor Charles Moore - tells @Marthakearney how she catches and looks at the creatures before releasing them again #r4Today pic.twitter.com/pO7smuZb79
— BBC Radio 4 Today (@BBCr4today) December 28, 2019
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