Hello, good afternoon.

Welcome to the John Gorn podcast.

The only way you're going to get true unbiased broadcasting in the United Kingdom is by scrapping the BBC license fee and scrapping off-com.

Let me explain.

Don't forget I was the first person to be cancelled effectively for my views on air.

And that was when I was on an independent station, let alone the BBC.

So I'm going to explain how we get unbiased broadcasting.

Well, actually, where it's biased, but where you're the grown-up, you can decide what you want to watch.

When you go and buy a newspaper, nobody tells you can only buy this newspaper because it's regulated or these newspapers.

You can buy the Sun or the Telegraph or the Mail or the Times or even the Guardian if you're so inclined. No one tells you what you can read.

Also, no one ever tells the newspapers what they can print or not print apart from the law of the land.

And that's all we need for broadcasting.

All we need is libel, slander and defamation.

The laws we've got in place.

We don't need a bunch of busy nobodies,

offcom, for example, telling us what the rules and regulations are.

It's so out of date.

It's all based on when there was only one TV station, one radio station, i.e. the BBC.

And then there was ITV.

Now there's everything, including me, doing it here in this badly lit room.

But I'm not controlled by offcom. I'm not controlled by

the BBC and a license fee. I haven't got any money, but I'm not controlled by it. So I can say

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