The voice of Britain’s free press is too important to ever be silenced again
CLIMATE-wreckers who halted delivery of The Sun and other newspapers are not just attacking the rights of millions of people to choose what they want to read.
They are also trying to destroy our greatest democratic principle: freedom of speech.
Their blind hatred was also deliberately aimed to hurt the ordinary hard-working people who produce and sell newspapers.
The magnificent printers and drivers who turned out night after night during the Covid crisis to bring you the news.
The hard-working newsagents and shopkeepers across Britain whose businesses have already been devastated by the pandemic.
The paper boys and girls who were sent home empty-handed.
And you, our magnificent readers, who were deprived of your favourite paper.
For that we are truly sorry.
The actions of the 150 or so Extinction Rebellion activists were moronic even by their own standards.
If you were lucky enough to have got hold of a copy of yesterday’s Sun, you would have read an impassioned interview with Sir David Attenborough demanding a global effort to save our planet, which we are reprinting today.
It is one of many articles that The Sun and The Sun on Sunday have carried as part of an open, democratic debate.
How ironic that so-called climate activists prevented that critical message being read by millions of people.
But then the climate is only a pretext for this ragbag army of anarchists, whose real aim is to smash the system.
Boris Johnson needs to act fast and outlaw this type of blockade immediately.
The voice of Britain’s free press is too important to ever be silenced again.
It'll end in tiers, BBC
THE BBC licence fee is as out-of-date as black and white TV.
We live in an on-demand age where viewers can choose from a range of top-quality services such as Netflix, Amazon and Disney+.
Crucially we are happy to pay for top-quality telly that we watch and enjoy.
But of course the compulsory licence fee forces us to pay £157.50 a year for BBC shows that we mostly ignore.
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A blueprint by new BBC chief Tim Davie for a two-tier system shows he accepts that a compulsory licence fee can no longer be defended.
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But he must proceed carefully.
A reduced fee for basic services is one thing. But viewers will be outraged if they have to fork out even more to watch popular favourites like Match of the Day and Strictly.
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