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Better-off households should pay more for the BBC, a former chairman has suggested, as he branded the current licence fee "regressive". Under...

The crisis at RTÉ features prominently on the front pages of Saturday’s newspapers again…

The former Goldman Sachs banker left the role after a report found he breached the rules around public appointments.

The ex-chairman, who stepped down in April, thinks the licence fee is ‘regressive’ and particularly hurts lower-income families and women

The former Goldman Sachs banker left the role after a report found he breached the rules around public appointments.

The former Goldman Sachs banker left the role after a report found he breached the rules around public appointments.

Also at the Spectator summer party: Suella Braverman’s summer plans, Labour beef and the future of the magazine itself

Dame Elan Closs Stephens took over as interim BBC chair this week – the FEU wants to see a non-govenment-appointed permanent chair.

The acting chairwoman of the BBC has admitted that staff and the board were “unnerved” by the scandal surrounding Richard Sharp.In her first day in the role, Dame Elan Closs Stephens paid tribute to Sharp for his two-year tenure as she noted the unsettling impact of his failure to disclose his role

She took over from Mr Sharp in an interim position.