Peter Rhodes on BBC salaries, an average summer and a close encounter with cluster bombs
Richard Sharp, former (briefly) chair of the BBC, suggests a household levy or broadband tax to fund the Corporation. Here's a better idea. Why doesn't the BBC learn to live within its means?
It could start by reviewing its star salaries. For example, if a BBC presenter has allegedly given £35,000 to a teenager in exchange for indecent images, that star has probably been paid too much. About £35,000 too much.
We were warned that Britain would endure more scorching summers like last year's. So far there's nothing to suggest anything tropical. In fact, with plenty of showers and temperatures hovering around 20C for the next fortnight, it looks like a pretty middling sort of July. But “middling” doesn't make good headlines.
