Edit: I will be checking this post throughout the day, I will try to !BAN everyone as quickly as I can. If you don't get your !BAN right away, just swing from the branches for a bit and I'll get to you!!

I'd always had a licence, but it dawned on me a year back that I didn't actually need one. We don't watch live TV, don't watch BBC iplayer and don't even have a functioning TV aerial. Everything we watch as a family is on-demand.

After the recent BBC leadership proposals and their increasing obsession with bowing to the government, I had had enough and formally cancelled my licence.

I provided confirmation that I would not be consuming any further output. It actually seemed like quite a simple process...

Then the letters started.

They don't come from the BBC, but rather the "TV licensing authority". They're always aggressive, telling me I "may" be breaking the law and clearly trying to make me worry enough that I simply buy a new licence. They seem to be written in such a way that it's very hard to understand what they are claiming or stating - again I presume to confuse people into rejoining them.

Then the visits started.

I've had three people in the space of three months turn up on my doorstep, asking why I don't have a licence.

The first one I was very polite to, and explained everything. But the second and third have been told in no uncertain terms to piss off, and that I have already explained my situation. It's clearly intended to be intimidation

Is this my life now?