I’ve run the numbers, and if my £174.50 licence fee went only toward the time I’ve spent this year watching Strictly Come Dancing , it’d be costing me £6.90 an hour. If it went only toward the time I’ve spent watching The Traitors , it’d be costing me £3.53 an hour. If it went only toward the time I spend listening to the Today programme every weekday morning, it’d be costing me 22p per hour. If it went only towards the time I spend rewatching old Bob Mortimer appearances on Would I Lie to You? in the middle of the night – well, by that point it’s basically free.

Now, I’m not brilliant at maths – could be all the TV – but even I can tell you that’s good value, and that honestly, if I was asked to pay those prices per hour for any of them, I’d do it. But I’ve never been moved t

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