there is a big problem with the licence fee coming because, ultimately, young people aren t. they re not watching on tv. so in some ways, a licence fee has to attach it to itself to some other form of infrastructure that s more universally used. and also, young people aren t consuming bbc content in the way that older people do. but that s something that needs to be considered. the argument that the government appears to want to be having is the wrong argument. ok, well, radio 4 is taking a deep dive into all these issues about how to fund the bbc if the licence fee goes. the briefing room with david aaronovitch is on thursday evening at 8pm on radio 4 and available via bbc sounds afterwards, for listeners now who want even more on the licence fee! but for us today, let s zoom out of these discussions for a moment, because within all these newspaper scoops about operation red meat and parties at downing street, there are some pretty difficult questions for the media to answer. for exam
and also, young people aren t consuming bbc content in the way that older people do. but that that s something that needs to be considered. the argument that the government appears to want to be having is the wrong argument. ok, well, radio four is taking a deep dive into all these issues about how to fund the bbc if the licence fee goes. the briefing room with david aaronovitch is on thursday evening at 8pm on radio four and available via bbc sounds afterwards for listeners now who want even more on the licence fee. but for us today, let s zoom out of these discussions for a moment because within all these newspaper scoops about operation red meat and parties at downing street, there are some pretty difficult questions for the media to answer. for example, one of these parties was held the night before prince philip s funeral. it was a leaving party held forjames slack, a former daily mailjournalist who was working as borisjohnson s director of communications, and he s now back on fle
of april 2021. it was a leaving do in number ten forjames slack, who was previously the director of communications in downing street, now a deputy editor at the sun newspaper. we know the prime minister wasn t at that event and hasn t been fined although he did apologise for these two events that took place on the eve of prince phillips funeral in downing street, but i think a really significant just to reflect on what we know about the fact that these fines have been issued. firstly this is the first time we have really had confirmation from the police that lockdown rules are broken in number ten. we knew some signs had been issued for people who had attended other parties in the cabinet office so far, but this is the first time we ve had confirmation that contrary to what the prime minister said at the time, number ten followed all the time, number ten followed all the rules, we know now that some people have been found to have broken rules in number ten itself, and secondly, i thin