[Humphrey Hacker]

Possibly a levy on taxation. Which would REALLY wind up the "scrap the licence fee" campaigners, as they'd be obligated to fund the BBC no matter what. Which makes me appreciate the idea.

I don’t really like this idea. The reason is this: the Australian Broadcasting Corporation is funded through general taxation, and successive Liberal  governments (their Tories) have continuously interfered, or tried to interfere, with the ABC’s independence. The ABC’s headquarters were even raided by police in 2019, over a report on alleged Australian war crimes in Afghanistan. So if you think what’s going on at the BBC is bad - which it is! - be grateful it’s not quite as bad as Australia.

I don't know about Australia but in my life time both Labour (Iraq) and Conservative (Falklands, Zircon and Ulster/Northern Ireland) governments have caused the BBC a lot of strife.