[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

Mr Blair was furious at a War Cabinet meeting on Friday.

He gave his official spokesman his blessing to say: “Try telling that to people whose relatives have been dropped head-first into shredders.

“I doubt if the Iraqi information minister would try to justify this report.”

Yow!

Hey all you Brits out there, what are the chances of an end to the license fee? I'm an American, but I would love to see that gaggle of self-righeous leftie twerps have to sink or swim on their own.

[Tomalak]

As a Brit who is so sick of the BBC, I hope and believe that the chances are good. When the license fee was first introduced, it made a sort of sense with only a few channels on TV. Now, with hundreds available, it is anachronistic in the extreme to have to pay £116 a year to the producers of a handful of them to watch TV at all.

Imagine if you had to pay $175 a year to watch your TV, and all to fund a TV company that took the same line on all the major issues as the New York Times. That's roughly what Brits face.

I think as the funding system becomes more and more out of date, things will change, so it's a question of if rather than when. I wouldn't be surprised if the license fee still existed in ten years. But I would definitely be surprised if it still existed in twenty-five years.