The television set has for many years been the Establishment’s agent placed in everyone’s living rooms – spouting propaganda as “news”, pushing moronic soaps or promoting mindless sports in order to keep the masses both misled and otherwise preoccupied.

How we get our news and entertainment is certainly changing though. #ACTA permitting, news – whether in alternative and so-called “mainstream” form – is available across the internet. We are no longer limited to terrestrial programming or carefully chosen digibox options.

But the UK government finds it hard to believe that there remain a few of us who are not chronically addicted to TV and who are perhaps determined to shun this would-be intruder …