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[maxk] 16/9/2020 10:09

£1m pay rise shoots Zoe Ball past Gary Lineker to top of BBC rich list


Matthew Moore, Media Correspondent
Wednesday September 16 2020, 12.00am, The Times



Gary Lineker has accepted a £400,000 pay cut to sign a new five-year deal with the BBC but was told publicly by the director-general to limit political tweets.

The Match of the Day host is no longer the corporation’s highest-paid presenter, having accepted a 23 per cent cut to his £1.75 million salary.


Zoe Ball tops the list, with a £1 million rise for fronting the Radio 2 breakfast show. She earns £1.36 million despite having lost a million listeners since replacing Chris Evans last year.

Lineker has become a lightning rod for criticism of BBC salaries since it was forced to report them in 2017.

Tim Davie, who has made reining in “activist” presenters a priority since taking over as director-general on September 1,

[maxk] 16/9/2020 10:02

No worse than staying on a sinking ship...

[alphorn] 16/9/2020 09:58

The dangers of jumping onto a holed boat.

The United States has described the World Trade Organization as “completely inadequate” after it criticised the Trump administration’;s tariffs on China.

The decision prompted Trump, who has already pulled the US out of the UN cultural organisation Unesco and the World Health Organization, to say in Washington that he had to “do something about the WTO".

[geckotheglorious] 16/9/2020 09:47

Cheshire.

Nope, I regret to say "not"

Too many "coincidences" such as this Furin Cleavage site, and how easily this virus binds to Human ACE2 receptors(even better than the alleged species ACE receptors it initially jumped from!!!!! ie Ludicrous claim it came from another species originally and jumped via a third party(Pangolin) to humans)

[xxxxxy] 16/9/2020 09:20

Daily telegraph

[xxxxxy] 16/9/2020 09:20

Note... International law / Parliament support.No Deal anyway. So academic really.WTO

[xxxxxy] 16/9/2020 09:18

Johnson may compromise over Brexit bill with rebelsBoris Johnson has signalled a possible compromise with Tory rebels after a minister suggested that elements of the Brexit legislation that triggered a revolt could be rewritten. The Prime Minister met senior MPs shortly before a vote on the Internal Market Bill and assured them that he would act on their concerns. Among them was Sir Bob Neill, who has tabled an amendment which seeks to bar the Government from breaching international law without Parliament's support. It comes amid growing optimism of a trade deal with Brussels despite the fallout. Today the president of the European Commission is expected to extend an olive branch by declaring that the EU still wants a trade deal with the UK.

[cheshire pete] 16/9/2020 08:50

Gecko: re #698....so not just crackpot conspiracy theorists then.

[alphorn] 16/9/2020 08:49

DEBT = leverage.

At a minnow's level - just how many people would have bought their first house without debt?
(I do know that most on here are renting).

[geckotheglorious] 16/9/2020 08:44

DEBT = Enslavement.

[diku] 16/9/2020 08:40

This DEBT thingy is just a word by name...dig deeper down does it really mean anything...

[diku] 16/9/2020 08:33

Good morning...

[arjun] 16/9/2020 08:32

Morning all

[geckotheglorious] 16/9/2020 08:31

Cheshire pete
Post 314685
"Reports of China starting a mass vaccination programme in November and we're not expecting a COVID vaccine until 2024. Anyone explain the disconnect...apart from the obvious that is"

Hehe far easier to develop a vaccine to the virus you have developed in a Lab.

"Rogue' Chinese Virologist claims she has "Evidence" COVID-19 created in a Lab"
Chinese virologist Dr. Li-Meng Yan
During the interview, she answered questions about her claims, and reiterated that the CCP didn't just deliberately cover up COVID-19 in a manner that led to thousands of unnecessary deaths, the party also knew that SARS-CoV-2 was created by Chinese scientists.





Oh look
She's been suspended from Twitter!!
2 days later!

"Twitter suspends account of Chinese scientist who published paper alleging Covid was created in Wuhan lahb"




Looking at the "Furin Cleavage site"

it is clear this was manufactured in a Lab.

[alphorn] 16/9/2020 08:28

"Buy Indian cars!!! (Jag/LandRover)"

Yes, for the design - not the quality.

Exception are the transmissions - silky smooth German units. Lol

[pal44] 16/9/2020 08:16

testing held up because they cant get off the plastic wrapped around the samples .. Not quite world beating .. Moon Shot etc etc ..

[xxxxxy] 16/9/2020 08:13

Sub 24p and will add to holding. The Future is Tomorrow.

[xxxxxy] 16/9/2020 08:10

AndNo Deal.WTO.Made and Produce of UK First.Be Global. But ensure Rely on our own country . FIRST.WTO

[bargainbob] 16/9/2020 07:59

Hopefully they can develop a vaccine for Jacko , Cheshire Pete and MM2 clearly there is an unmet need .

[diku] 16/9/2020 07:54

I thought flu jabs are only for certain age group and above (old age)...or if you have a medical condition...

[xxxxxy] 16/9/2020 07:47

And get your flu jabs. Pretty well all ages. And pneumonia jabs. Probably no effective covid jabs. And obesity can kill. Life choices.Don't rely on Nanny State.

[xxxxxy] 16/9/2020 07:42

Saving lives and livelihoods – the policy dilemmaBy JOHNREDWOOD | Published: SEPTEMBER 16, 2020The government is accused of mixed messages and shifts of policy in response to the pandemic. It is in practice trying to achieve a precarious balance between bearing down on the virus and allowing the resumption of more normal economic life.There are now two strong camps in the nation. There are the freedom lovers who think more of the special restrictions and measures should be lifted. They do not think the pandemic is that serious and want to see liberties restored. They point out the death rate as puboished is now very low and the pressure is off intensive care. There are pandemic fighters, who want every measure of control taken that can help bear down on the virus and go on to eliminate it. They resent any moves to more normal lives and worry that all relaxations come at a heavy medical price. They argue it is only a matter of time before the current upsurge in reported cases of the virus finds itself into the Care Homes and homes of the vulnerable and raises the death rate.The government itself reflects these divisions in society. The Chancellor argues the case for more economic relaxation, whilst the Health Secretary puts forward the case for more restrictions based on official advice from the medical and scientific establishment. Policy tries to do a bit of both.In order to inform public policy better and to influence the many people who feel both impulses, there need to be some further improvements in the data and approach. We need to have better numbers collected over a sustained period for how many cases as a proportion of the population, how many serious cases needing intensive care, and how many death wholly or largely attributable to CV 19. Some of the back numbers are unreliable, and there have been various changes in definitions.The officials of NHS England and Public Health England need to take the government's policy of increasing testing, and the substantial sums of money Ministers have made available, and show how the large demand for tests today can soon be met. The NHS needs to concentrate on getting its staff back to work in every surgery and ward to start to reduce the backlog of other treatments and to stop avoidable deaths from causes other than CV 19.

[scruff1] 16/9/2020 05:26

There is no end to our past naughtiness. Headline in independent " how our colonial past is destroying the planet". How far can this be taken.