That's a great clip, John.

A couple of points on the licence fee (which costs every household with a telly, with a few exemptions - not every taxpayer - 42.5p per day). You could argue that you shouldn't pay it if you have no telly or device that can go online. That's a high bar these days, innit, and there are plenty of non-paying cheats around. Either we tell folks with the tellies and computers that they still have to pay up, despite their protestations, or they tell fibs about what they never tune into and risk being caught, or we trust what they say about their viewing habits, until some better way of monitoring them comes up. Your mileage may vary, but I think, you have a telly, you pay. We tend to regard the Beeb as a public service. We regard schools as a public service, but the people who never had kids, or use only public schools, don't get let off tax that contributes to state schools (though there's the outrage that public schools are treated as charities - ha bloody ha). Pacifists don't get let off the bit of tax that pays for the army, another public service. Etcetera.

To a large extent the Beeb still has to raise money via commercial methods. Have you seen how much the Radio Times costs these days! And they make a fortune by selling the Strictly Come Dancing brand, many of their dramas and comedy series and Attenborough's documentaries, to name but a few, overseas.

So if we scrap the licence fee, the BBC will resort to advertising. The advertisers pay the Beeb, and so we pay the advertisers more money for their stuff. I wonder whether the 42.5p per day would cover that, and you'll never get the extra money back that you paid for that stuff by claiming that you don't have a telly (I pay more for stuff that's advertised on commercial channels, which I seldom watch, and if I do I record it in advance so that I can fast-forward through the ads. What a cheat!).

The Attenborough notorious sixth episode: now what kind of a decision was that, being told as we are that, well, it wasn't really part of the series so we'll shove it aside on iPlayer (where it'll get fewer viewers).

Attenborough. The most watched and watchable stuff on telly ever. So we'll put it on iPlayer. Do you believe their reasons for that? Well I have no evidence, but I simply don't believe it. From what I read, that episode is going to shoot from the hip as to the true causes of our wildlife decline. So that would largely target farming practices, possibly including the use of neonicotinoid insecticides, and would cover the misuse of land by landowners, for grouse-shooting for example. Now all that would get right up the noses of the farming lobby and the landed gentry, including the royals. Call me Mr Cynical, but if you try to tell me that the Beeb hasn't been leaned on by this right-wing government and those vested interests, I might just accuse you of having a laugh.