Mike

THE BBC was put in the stocks last week when its pay list was published to reveal eye watering amounts to celebrities and a bias towards blokes at the top end of the salary scale.

While lots of rotten vegetables were thrown its way, I suspect just about every company and organisation in the UK, public or private, has a gender pay gap.

So why don’t we compel all of them to publish their own list to reveal how ‘fair’ they are?

And for the hell of it, why not break it down into ethnicity too and I’m sure the results would be, well, wholly predictable.

However the BBC, funded by a licence fee the country is encouraged to moan about from birth, always seems to operate in isolation in this respect.

And it didn’t help that the whole story was turned into a sort of top Trumps game with Chris Evans and Gary Lineker being the faces on the must-have cards and women, in general, on the weaker ones.

I think it was George Osborne who said the BBC should publish a list of people who earned £450k a year only for Theresa May to set the bar at £150k.

The reason of course was that the Prime Minister’s income is £150k a year (for some reason no-one seems to count free rental at Downing Street and access to the grace and