On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:56:44 +0000, David Hansen
wrote:

It is the arrogance of the BBC in collecting their subscription, in
particular the threatening unsolicited marketing materials they send
out demanding an answer, which needs to be sorted. I don't have a
subscription for all sorts of things and none of them bombard me
with threatening pieces of paper.

But how many of these subscriptions of which you speak are backed by
an Act of Parliament?

Sticking your head in the sand and calling it a conspiracy shouldn't
make it go away.