Abstract
The former BBC political correspondent writes: "The quarrel between the Government and the BBC is a farce that risks sliding into tragedy. With the licence fee negotiations adding spice to the sauce, two groups of vain men and women - No. 10 and its hangers-on and the BBC higher-ups - are willing to risk the future of a worthwhile British institution, and have already sullied the face of British politics. Yet both are so wrapped in self-righteousness that they seem incapable of escaping from this corrosive quarrel."
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