JOHN HUMPHRYS

has offered a jaw-dropping excuse for earning almost five times the salary of his former Radio 4 Today co-presenter Sarah Montague.

‘Rottweiler’ Humphrys, 75, who was forced to cut his £600,000 pay packet after it was exposed, told Oxford University students last week: ‘I thought, “I’ve been at the BBC for 50-odd years, and I’ve been a foreign correspondent and I’ve been shot at and bombed and nasty things have happened to me.” ’

I wonder what the snowflakes thought of that?