I'm torn on this issue. If the BBC vanished tomorrow, I would be hard pressed to notice, and I don't think I would miss it. But there is still a strong case for a national broadcaster to showcase British talent and export our cultural produce. The essential problem with the BBC is that it is increasingly not run by British people, and it is not run for them. You're more likely to encounter Arabs, Africans and Asians in the BBC newsroom than a working class Englishman. It sees itself as an internationalist enterprise, and it has no loyalty to Britain at all. Worse still, the people who run it don't even like Britain. There was time, not so very long ago, when the BBC would celebrate Britain. You may remember the Greatest Britons series, or BBC Coast at its peak - running concurrently with peak BBC comedy that was capable of self-mockery. I think tall that died circa 2008, and by 2016, it actively loathed the average British citizen, especially if they voted for Brexit. The death of Clarkson era Top Gear was probably when most normal people's relationship with the BBC ended. The bottom line is that you can't have a national broadcaster that doesn't like the British people. You can't expect it to produce anything that the British people would want to watch, much less anyone else. You can't expect it to promote and celebrate British cultural produce when it doesn't even want to be associated with the people who produce it, and is ashamed of our history. Such an enterprise can only ever become a universally loathed parasite. Then as much as we know who the BBC doesn't like, we can also see who it does like. It firehoses our money at absolute scum, while being on the wrong side of every major political divide. It would rather do shows about drag queens than British history. As such, I am largely ambivalent as to whether it survives or not. It is entitled to keep being what it is just so long as I don't have to part with my money to maintain it. It should have to compete on the same basis as everyone else.