We will miss the BBC when it’s gone

For conservatives, things can always get worse

‘The BBC is almost overburdened with a sense of responsibility. One sometimes has the impression that because it is not answerable to one particular body it feels itself to be answerable to everyone for all its actions.’ Those words, written in 1935 by political scientist W.A. Robson, could similarly be said today of the corporation, under fire by a Con…