Where's the threat, when it hasn't any substance? The point is, if someone hasn't got a TV they don't have to pay anything, obviously, and if some computer somewhere keeps on churning out letters that assume that they do have one, it doesn't make a blind bit of difference. It's spam. It shouldn't happen, but that's the kind of thing that happens in the private sector all the time. Sometimes the non-commercial sector picks up bad habits like that.

I hope when, sooner or later, you get a grovelling apology, Stage Manager, you let us know.

The idea that everyone owning a TV set should have to pay a licence fee, to pay for a bunch of TV and radio channels (and a first rate web presence, which of course you don't have to pay a licence to access), without any adverts, may not be a fashionable notion in the world today, but it works pretty well, and provides remarkably good value. And compared to the alternative, remarkably good quality, even dragged down as it has been these last few years.