Huw Edwards could still retire on a BBC pension paying more than £300,000 a year despite his convictions for creating indecent images including of a seven year-old child.
Read it and weep: the list of the BBC journalists taking home six figure salaries courtesy of the licence fee payer. Disgraced presenter Huw Edwards came top with £475k despite being off air for nine months of the year.
Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has criticised the proposed £15 increase in the BBC licence fee as "excessive" amid a cost of living crisis and growing public discontent, with a rising demand for a pay-per-content model.
2.84 million viewers are refusing to pay the BBC licence fee – a 360,000 increase from last year. It looks increasingly as if the BBC cannot survive on its current funding model and should become a subscription-based service like Netflix and Amazon Prime.
The BBC may have leaned towards pro-lockdown coverage of the coronavirus pandemic in a reaction to the threat to its funding, former Supreme Court Justice Lord Jonathan Sumption has said.
Jeremy Clarkson has poured scorn on the idea that the BBC is a Tory stronghold. Apparently he even had to leave his copy of the Spectator outside the Radio 5 Live offices, as it was deemed “extremist material”.
A Telegraph poll has found that 91% of readers want to scrap the BBC licence fee. Is the Telegraph out of step with the country, or has the BBC lost its place as the national broadcaster?
The Lineker incident will accelerate the demise of the BBC license fee, highlighting the fact that a broadcaster cannot hope to represent "all of us" in such a polarised era, argues Patrick O’Flynn.
The Government is launching a major review into whether the BBC is complying with 'impartiality requirements' after accusations of 'Islingtonian Left-wing bias'.
