“Samira Ahmed takes BBC to court over equal pay”

Nov 9, 2019 | In the news

Tags: BBC, equal pay

Have to say, what surprised me about this story was how little your average TV star is paid. We all kind of assume that once you’ve made it in front of the cameras, you’re minted. What some of the ladies are getting is almost laughable. And if Jeremy Vine presented Points of View every day rather than once a week, he’d still only earn 1/10 of the salary of a mid-range Premiership footballer; or 1/5 as much as the average big company CEO. End of career counselling, kids.

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“Apple versus the world”

Apple has just launched its first actual new product in quite a while, a virtual reality gizmo, and that is quite big news. What they do put out there is usually a big seller and makes still more big bucks.