Ofcom, UK regulator of media and telecoms, plans to sell off newly available spectrum to the highest bidder.
That's how it looks, at any rate. No surprise, I suppose.
Thing is, it's a once-in-a-lifetime possibility to add to the creative sum of a burgeoning community media world in a so-called sophisticated Western nation.
Apportioning culture and accessible learning according to who has the largest amounts of money is not especially intelligent. But then Blair invaded Iraq.
Does anyone care ? Not sure. Anyway there is MySpace and YouTube and local media via broadband and mobile phones, so what the hell.
People however like local TV and a good old broadcast signal, which is more than likely never to come into proper public ownership. They'll want us to pay for air soon. And implant chips and tags into babies from birth (or sooner). Orwell ? Blair's Britain, that's all. Fresh with intercepted emails (combatting terrorism of course), satellites to monitor how we use our cars and charge us for using a road (I mean, how dare we !), and an active campaign by a socialist mayor to punish people who want to use cash to buy a bus ticket.
£2 per ride now, for money. If you buy a Government card, called 'Oyster' - I'm still thinking about that, it costs you £1. In January the lovely London mayor put up bus fares by 33% for cash spenders and dropped them 33% for those happy to have their movements logged on a central computer.
It's one thing beating Australia at cricket but I'm not sure how much I love my country just at the moment.