Time’s up for licence fee

DARING APPOINTMENTS in broadcasting regulation are overdue and necessary, as the structure of the media industry in Britain has long cried out for change. Press reports a month or so back claimed that Charles Moore would soon be appointed chairman of the British Broadcasting Corporation and Paul Dacre would be the new head of Ofcom. Moore has ruled himself out, but Boris Johnson may proceed with the Dacre nomination to Ofcom.

Almost everyone involved in the public debate on British broadcasting now accepts that the BBC