Today’s Telegraph Comment column is a classic of agenda wrapped up in faux fairness

 Blessed are the media owners, for they shall inherit the Earth

Never ones to claim balance in their use of the media, the Barclay Brothers (seen left as two of the Unholy Trinity) launch another campaign to starve out the BBC today: it’s called removing the licence fee. A month after Grant Shapps suggested the Beeb should “share” the fee with another (really? Who? Rupert (left) maybe?) the Telegraph’s inhouse thunderer declares:

‘If you want to watch TV, then you have to pay the BBC £145.50 a year whether you like it or not. A review of this arrangement is long overdue, and with the current charter running out at the end of 2016, now is the time to start one. Rightly, this is a task that has been taken on by Parliament in the shape of the Commons culture select committee, which yesterday took evidence from an array of past BBC chiefs.’

Well, if you want to watch footie in Britain now, you have to pay £30 a month at least to watch the braindead rubbish churned out by Sky….whether you like it or not. And pretty much the same thing goes for cricket. The argument being put forward by the Barclaygraph is spurious, because the issue on the table is one of quality: do you want Public Service Broadcasting (PBS) prepared to take risks on innovative programming….or do you want the ratings obsession and 792 programme repeats about buying homes abroad that we have now?

I suspect the Barclay Twins would rather have an Islamic revolution on Sark than do Murdoch any favours; but unlike most British citizens, they can see the common enemy, and work with the Devil to remove it. That enemy is, without question, the BBC. The Unholy Trinity see it as a hotbed of Communist cells in serious need of mortal wounding chemotherapy.

I’m often accused of being an apologist for the BBC, but that simply doesn’t stand up: I think the spineless plonkers at the top need rooting out, I think the entire role of the BBC should be kept well away from private capital and tedious John Birt clones, and I believe its news coverage now to be worse than at any time in its history.

But this is another of those arguments where too many people have granite where the grey matter should be. Like the vital necessity of taking away Parliamentary lobbying influence by making the State support political Parties, the minute one defends the idea of the BBC, one must ipso facto be a dangerous anarchist or Big State socialist.

The emphasis there is intentional: the idea of PBS is vital to the continuation of a civilised culture in Britain, and it should be available as freely online as it is via terrestrial broadcasting. My point remains simple: if you go along with this anti-BBC attack on several fronts, then you will end up with Murdoch. Knuckle-draggers can go off to the facilities to over-excite themselves now: the rest of you, please wake up.

Rupert Murdoch has not had one scintilla of his power taken away. He has decided four out of the last six elections in this country (where he is neither citizen nor taxpayer). He has ruined the international reputation of English footballers, and made a mountain of money showing breasts gratuitously, while accusing celebs of things they didn’t do. Several of those celebs are now facing Court cases based on trumped-up sex offence charges. Spooky that.

Somehow, the role of Newscorp and the Met in Plebgate managed to remain hidden, but before that we had ample evidence of naked corruption of the police by senior Newscorp executives (we’re still hearing it in gory detail at the Bailey) and invasion of public privacy on an industrial scale. All of it was denied, and several of the investigations were nearly spiked by a variety of crooked Westminster lickspittle. Two of the ensuing hacking inquiries covered up the guilt. All of it and more turned out to be true.

Yet neither Rupert Murdoch nor his creepy son have made a single court appearance. This despite James’s obvious perjury during Leveson, and Rupert’s clear threat on tape of violent revenge upon Met police detectives who investigated him. At the end of an Inquiry designed to get Newscorp under control, Murdoch got barely a mention in Leveson’s “report”: it merely suggested Draconian directives to shut up the blogosphere and independent investigative journalism.

If Murdoch gets hold of visual moving communications in the UK, then it will become Pottersville within two years. This piece of barely human anti-matter hates Britain, ignores the law, and lets his senior managers behave like gangsters in every market on the planet – without exception. He has now organised (as his revenge on Camerlot and the BBC for not “supporting” him in his hour of discovery) an interlinked campaign to destroy the BBC, and use the police as his flamethrower.

So powerful is this man now, his gofers are running the NHS and the State education system, and the latter of these is the bookies’ favourite to take over as Prime Minister once David Cameron his been given the Caesarean back procedure at some point in 2015. He has the police and the judiciary in his pocket, and he is leading the charge to turn Britain into Island Financial & Media Services Inc, proprietor a person called Murdoch.

The outcome of the Leveson Inquiry ought to have been the arrest of most senior Newscorpers, the deportation of those family members incriminated in the illegality, and the deconstruction of every media outlet before being sold off to other interests with less obvious agendas. Yes I know it sounds “unfair”, but such a judgement merely goes to show just how passively accepting the Brits have become. For being a major influence on destruction of culture, corruption of police, malign media influence on political life, and ruining what was once the Beautiful Game, Roop should consider himself lucky to get out alive – let alone stay out of jail.

We badly need a mutualised, shaken-up and independent BBC fearless in the face of Government pressure from Left and Right – which, since 1997, it has had in abundance. We need wholesale reform, reformulation and rejuvenation of the BBC. We need Murdoch like we need secondary cancers in every organ of the State.

In its dealings with the BBC, the Right is as boneheaded as the Left when it comes to the subordination of British life to the needs of business-obsessed sociopaths. FFS please focus, and remember that the Greater Bad must be spotted and defeated before we are to get back to the Greater Good.

Yesterday at The Slog: Osborne’s powerful enemy….Mark Carney