Salaries of the BBC’s top presenters have been made public.

Some of them are quite good at their jobs, but seriously, are the BBC not able to get others who could do the job just as well, if not better, for a fraction of these salaries?

The BBC’s top earners 1. Gary Lineker – £1.75m 2. Zoe Ball – £1.36m 3. Graham Norton – £725,000 4. Steve Wright – £475,000 5. Huw Edwards – £465,000 6. Fiona Bruce – £450,000 7. Vanessa Feltz – £405,000 8. Lauren Laverne – £395,000 9. Alan Shearer – £390,000 10. Stephen Nolan – £390,000

I don’t know who Stephen Nolan is, but for me the most incomprehensible salary is that paid to that candidate for The World’s Most Boring Man, Huw Edwards. Close to half a million for his capacity to send the nation to sleep. It beggars belief. It really does.