There is currently much concern with questions of freedom of speech and expression, much of it focused on the appearance of ‘wokeness’ and its manifestations in corporate life, the media, and academia. Historically, the idea of free expression was seen as dangerous or a heresy. But this has...

In the past, the use of a compulsory levy on television sets (a licence fee) to finance the BBC could be justified given the problem of spectrum scarcity and the fact that television signals were a public good (i.e. there was effectively a zero marginal cost of an additional user receiving the...