The BBC agreed to accept the extra cost, negotiating some concessions – in particular that the licence fee would rise in line with inflation.
"The public are going to be greatly alarmed that we seem to be having a recurrence of failings in domestic violence cases and in one particular case in the licence and management of a man convicted of domestic violence and a serial sex offender," said Davies.
However, it is legal to allocate new licences to particular dispatchers if increased competition in the market is the result.
The economic liberalisation of the past 20 years in particular, the dismantling of the "licence Raj"—has vastly reduced the scope for corruption, not increased it.
SA attorney general John Rau relented on that point earlier this month, and pubs can now apply to remove that particular restriction from their liquor licence.
Fairhead has faced extensive criticism since taking over as chair of the trust, in particular over the way the licence fee deal was struck.
She disapproved of the licence fee in particular as a regressive tax, and the BBC in general as, in Moore's words, "left-wing, monopolistic, anti-her".
Currently, the first company to apply for a licence for a particular patch is either accepted or rejected; in future the government plans to auction some licences to the highest bidder.
The disproportion the Shard makes visible in Britain, the licence we in particular, more than most, have given to what Margaret Thatcher called the "wealth creators", has been allowed to shape British society since the 1980s.
Wynde said the placing of the starling under a general licence was a particular worry, as this could encourage people to take down their nests at a time when their numbers were falling.
