A consensus seems to be forming that the BBC licence fee is for the chop. In a digital age, the reasoning goes, we should not be forced to subscribe to huge bundles of content, with no choice over what we pay for and what we don’t.
This argument, intriguingly, is both true and false at the same time.
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Rory Sutherland is vice-chairman of Ogilvy UK. He will be in discussion with Fraser Nelson on Thursday 26 March; for tickets go to www.spectator.co.uk/rory
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