[MadIvan]

I don't feel less than free. But then again, I'm not in a highly regulated profession like a doctor. The biggest bit of regulation I have to face at the moment is Sarbanes Oxley since I work for an American firm.

PS - you'd be better off asking a fencepost than Jovial Cad what he thinks, he's an anti-British bigot.

Regards, Ivan

[ccmay]

I don't feel less than free

Ivan, dear boy,

You should take a look at Nanny Knows Best if you've never seen it. If even half of what they say is true, the Englishman's liberties are a shadow of what they once were.

-ccm

[A Jovial Cad]

My, my...where have those reputedly impeccable Isle manners gone? It is, after all, considered common courtesy even among us crude colonialists to *ping a person we're discussing in the third person to another poster...

Guess that's in the same steep decline as stiff upper lips and basic human liberty out your way too, eh?

Your "anti-British bigot" bilge is, besides being nonsense, the textbook definition of laughable. What I am is an "anti-Mad Ivan nonsense & smarmy half-truths" bigot. To that charge I happily plead guilty...

[Cronos]

As an American living in the UK, I can vouch for the fact that the title of this article is quite incorrect -- one feels quite free to do what one wants in the UK

[BJClinton]

you'd be better off asking a fencepost than Jovial Cad what he thinks

Well, he is from Oklahoma.

So what is this "TV Licensing Agency" the article refers to?