Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Spike Newsgroups: uk.tech.digital-tv Subject: Re: BBC cuts (round 1?) Date: 21 Jun 2026 10:24:04 GMT Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <20260619184156.ea679a789b5d8aea90100e1d@gmail.com> <5cebdf916cbob@sick-of-spam.invalid> <11187ad$lgp5$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net rcdATQYTsWxqLCE/F4wkLAB/cINR04qvsrCphtsWAg8/Bt0/wY Cancel-Lock: sha1:Yq4lv31ZTRR7C+DmYUgTqMdMbKo= sha1:O6jD/OGsaqkpWVcMzdkQgAKMABU= sha256:y7TG37AZKtaVR0Mndli8YicvYW4NAJjosDoMG0Av9uA= User-Agent: NewsTap/5.6.3 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Xref: csiph.com uk.tech.digital-tv:249454 JMB99 wrote: > On 21/06/2026 08:26, Roderick Stewart wrote: >> There is no way the BBC can survive in its present form because it's >> not the 1950s any more. > By that argument we could close all libraries and might as well close > the universities as well. If the libraries only carried publications that projected The Gospel According to Saint Marx-Lenin, you might have had a point, but they don’t and so you don’t. Many universities are in serious danger of becoming basket-cases, as the euphoria of Saint Blair’s Degrees for All policy is becoming rather tarnished by the experience of those that paid very considerable amounts and have now seen that they as a group haven’t done well out of it. The new fashion is to claim mental health issues and get free money for life. -- Spike