Many of the new banking licences went to applicants with close ties to the current government.
If your photograph is sold you get 50% of the standard licence fee and any extended licences go 100% to the photographer.
Vodafone's parent, Racal Electronics, bid for and won the only private-sector mobile licence in 1982, the other licence going to partially privatised British Telecommunications BTT).
Any side with Gianluca Zambrotta, Gigi Buffon and Cannavaro playing at such remarkable levels can allow itself almost unlimited licence going forward.
But Morgan's right to exercise dramatic licence goes way over the top in his portrait of Harold Wilson.
Around 30% of wine sold off-licence goes for less than 45p a unit, estimates Ian Anderson of Accolade Wines, Britain's largest wine supplier.
The owners of the site came under overwhelming political pressure to let the licence go ahead, but were desperately unhappy about it.
But as creative licence goes, it is inspired – a blazing, horrifying image of the random death-dealing of war and the grim fact that soldiers try not to think about as they go off to battle: not all of them will die but some definitely will.
"When he went all a bit symbol, a bit 'Artist Formerly Known As' you thought, 'He's lost it now, call yourself a symbol?' But I like the crying doves in When Doves Cry, which they don't; again, it's a myth; it's artistic licence gone mad!
"I don't think people want to see the licence fee going up.
