Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Easy to say

 I'm no Rubik's Cube expert, but have found 'solving' one side first doesn't help with the remaining five sides. 

Thus, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy on her plans for the BBC. "If the NHS is essential to the health of our people the BBC is essential to the health of our democracy.

"So while the terms, the structures and the funding for the BBC will continue to be negotiated every several years, we should seek to end the bizarre situation where if the Charter isn’t agreed in time, the BBC ceases to exist."

There's no clarity on how she'll achieve this. Perhaps burying A Grand Statement of Permanent Existence somewhere Mr and Mrs Tice can't sniff it out.  Even if they can't find it, the phrase 'to be negotiated every several years' isn't really the escape from a permanent argument about renewal that the BBC side had hoped for.... 

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