nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20201113-200150-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 201113s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20201113-200150-0 doi eng 342 23 Danbury, Richard Author aut The BBC and Henry VIII’s Heirs Danbury, Richard Verfassungsblog 2020-11-13 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Once again, the BBC is under pressure. Once again, the British Government is briefing hostile newspapers about how both it, and its sister public service broadcaster, Channel 4, are in the firing line. Once again, dark clouds gather over its future, which has been called into question. The licence fee, the hypothecated tax that provides the corporation with its revenue, has been under threat in the past, but this time, it’s proved the lightning rod for more dissent, with a citizen’s campaign to defund the BBC. How did we get here? Where should we go? Where will we go? CC BY-SA 4.0 BBC Constitutional Law Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-bbc-and-henry-viiis-heirs/ raw object