I sympathise with this position but on balance I'm against the idea. At-the-time popularity is very different to quality, and I think moving to a subscription s

I sympathise with this position but on balance I'm against the idea. At-the-time popularity is very different to quality, and I think moving to a subscription service would favour the former. There's been a decent number of extremely good low key indie productions on the BBC that I don't think would see the light of day otherwise, e.g. fleabag, people just do nothing, and the detectorists. Then of course there's the World Service, which is something we can be hugely proud of as a nation. The BBC also spends a lot more time and money making its services accessible to people with disabilities than it would be able to otherwise. I actually stopped my licence after the most recent election because I'm sickened by how sycophantic it is towards the ruling party. But I don't think a subscription model is the way to go.