Moore’s TV dinner
Sir: While I have been generally supportive of Charles Moore’s quest to impose a degree of financial proportionality on what the BBC pays Jonathan Ross, and of his ‘scheme’ to withhold payment for his TV licence until the matter is satisfactorily addressed, I am dismayed to read that he is doing so at my expense (The Spectator’s Notes, 4 July).
If he wishes to dine with the corporation’s director-general in order to discuss his ‘project’, could he not do so at his own expense instead of that of the taxpayer? Or should I now withhold payment of my TV licence until such gorging ceases?
Adrian Hilton
Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire
James on James
Sir: James Walton (Arts, 4 July) may be doing Clive James a disservice. The glory of his Observer column was that he never took television seriously. Clive James adored writing about Dallas and the verbal howlers of commentators on Match of the Day.
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