THE BBC IS UNDER ATTACK AGAIN, but in a different sort of way:

The latest high court challenge to the BBC’s licence fee began today with a 60 year old Oxfordshire man claiming the annual charge is a breach of his human rights.

Jean-Jacques Marmont, who was prosecuted for licence fee evasion in 1992, has launched proceedings against the BBC, representing a group of licence-fee payers.

He argues the licence fee breaches the European convention and UK Human Rights Act and amounts to harassment and an infringement on his private and family life.

But his action is just one of several legal rows the BBC is facing over the £116 fee.

His effort joins at least three other court actions, including one involving Sunday Times columnist Jonathan Miller.

All of the legal actions argue that the licence fee contravenes article 10 of the European convention on human rights.

What do you say when the BBC runs afoul of the Eurocracy? Oh, yeah: “Heh.”