I have advised on media plurality, and politically steadfastly opposed every deregulation and dilution of cross-media-ownership rules, since about 1980. I had a finger in the original BSB TV franchise, and the supplier agreements between the terrestrial TV companies and Sky. While I would have been quite happy investing in Anglia TV (John Woolf was not a bad old stick) HTV would likely have stuck in my craw, they had some real right wing loonies at the top (although some of their documentaries on Welsh poverty were praiseworthy).

Invest in BskyB? My conscience would scream nearly as loudly as if it were Cape (the asbestos company) or RTZ or de Beers.