The sad truth about the BBC

When will the BBC get a grip? The corporation which, remember, is funded by licence payers, appears to be strangely overgenerous to its ‘marginalised’ executives with saintly protected characteristics. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT), ethnic minority, disabled and female BBC bosses typically earn more money than their colleagues, statistics buried in the corporation’s annual report have revealed. Senior managers who are LGBT earn salaries 15.6 per cent larger than those who are not, the Daily Telegraph reported – while top bosses from ethnic minority backgrounds earn around 12 per cent more than those who are white.

This questionable generosity with licence fee cash comes after a slew of other recent BBC shockers. Disgraced former star presenter Huw Edwards has failed to return £200,000 he ‘earned’ – or, more correctly, was paid – between his arrest and resignation last year. And last month the BBC covered itself in shame after it emerged that its documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone featured a child