I happen to like Boris Johnson. I think he provides a bit of much-needed colour to the political scene, and he seems better at his job than that annoying nasal Red Ken but I don't live in London so what do I know. But is he worth £250k for a weekly...

Mark Thompson has finally admitted that the BBC must cut its budgets. Not, as you might expect, because it is lavish, over-staffed and is strangling its commercial rivals to death but because it might breach its ‘statutory borrowing limit'. How awful...

More shocking news for the BBC: The Scotsman reports that Tam Dean Burn has added his voice to the chorus of actors vowing never to work for the Corporation again unless it reverses its decision not to show the DEC broadcast. What do you mean you've...

Writing in today's Financial Times, BBC director-general Mark Thompson indicates that he would support a merger between Channel 4 and Five in order to save them costs and preserve his precious licence fee from any proposed top-slicing. Sadly for Trisha...

Anyone else watch Mark Thompson's and Michael Lyons' performance before the Commons culture, media and sport select committee? There was pitiful little evidence of either wearing a hair shirt - in fact, neither looked that they were particularly...

Jonathan Ross will only get paid £4.6m of our money this year. What a shame. By suspending him without pay for 12 weeks, the BBC is hoping that by mid-January we will all have forgotten about the appalling lapse in taste and regulatory control that led...

Good to see that Ross and Brand have been suspended. Let's just hope that it is without pay and that Mark Thompson finally shows some decisiveness and the ability to reign in an organisation that appears to be spiralling out of control by firing them...