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Charles Moore: State broadcasting allows fascism — and we’re paying the fees for it

Plus: Cheerio, Charles Letts; I know what to put on the fourth plinth; why Ed Balls should be called '12A'

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issue 16 November 2013

There has not been much good news out of Greece since the eurozone powers decided to crush the country, but it is heartening that the state broadcasting company, ERT, has been closed down. All such broadcasting systems, including the BBC, are attempts to impose certain political and cultural norms upon the population, and force them to pay for them.

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Charles Moore
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Charles Moore

Charles Moore is The Spectator’s chairman.

He is a former editor of the magazine, as well as the Sunday Telegraph and the Daily Telegraph. He became a non-affiliated peer in July 2020.

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