IAIN MURRAY WRITES on privatizing the BBC. He seems to think the idea is gathering momentum:

The BBC would become the latest in a long line of British institutions that had their over-mighty political pretensions cut down by privatization or marginalization. . . . The great irony will be that this greatest and most-needed of all privatizations will probably be undertaken by a center-left government that shares Lord Reith’s paternalist instincts. The people’s government has decided that the people’s broadcaster no longer represents the people. In that at least the Blairites are correct.

Interesting.