Disregard that last post

Reality has not sunk in at all. Mark Thompson still thinks that he is in competition with other broadcasters. Thompson runs a quango which is funded by a tax on people who consume content from his "competitors". How can that be regarded as competion?

If Thompson thinks that he can get away with anything less than transparency under the new government then he is making a serious mistake. The next review of the licence fee is due in 2012, the BBC would be well advised to put its house in order before then.

Increasing the executive pay bill would not have been our recommendation. We also, initially, wondered how the BBC manages to calculate inflation as running at 14%. The real trick though, turns out to be that the BBC manages to report on pay rises almost two years after they happen. Transparency delayed is transparency denied.