Pay us on our ability, not what others get

THIS obsession with pay equality at the bbC — the latest thing is a letter in the Guardian, signed by various luvvies, to director-general tony Hall demanding more transparency — is ridiculous.

it stifles ambition (what’s the point in going that extra mile if you can’t be rewarded for it), builds resentment (how come so-and-so gets the same for doing their job half as well as such-and-such) and drains organisations of all the internal competition that is such a driver of success.

i want to be paid according to my ability to do my job — not on the basis of what the woman sitting next to me gets.