Samira Ahmed claims victory in BBC equal pay tribunal January 10, 2020 Samira Ahmed has won an equal pay employment tribunal against the BBC. The TV presenter claimed she was underpaid for hosting Newswatch in comparison with the salary Jeremy Vine commanded for his similarly-structured audience feedback programme, Points of View. Read more: Samira Ahmed v BBC: The court case over a 600 per cent pay gap [...]
General Election 2019: How to watch the results on live TV December 12, 2019 The UK has been plunged into a political broadcast blackout today, with channels forced to put their election coverage on hold as Brits go to the polls. But when voting closes at 10pm, the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky will all fire up their cameras to provide rolling coverage until the UK’s next Prime [...]
BBC leak reveals names of 120 women in equal pay dispute November 1, 2019 The BBC has been accused of a potentially major data breach after the names of 120 female employees who had pursued equal pay complaints against the broadcaster were inadvertently revealed during presenter Samira Ahmed’s employment tribunal case. The document names BBC women who had put their names to a letter issued by the National Union [...]
Samira Ahmed faces BBC in court over ‘600 per cent’ pay gap October 28, 2019 BBC presenter Samira Ahmed has today kicked off her legal challenge against the broadcaster over claims she was paid just “a sixth” of Jeremy Vine’s salary. The Newswatch presenter has said she was paid just £440 per programme, while Vine received as much as £3,000 per episode for his work on Points of View. Read [...]
Boris’ Brexit blindside: What the hell just happened? August 28, 2019 Boris Johnson has put the cat among the pigeons by asking the Queen to suspend parliament for nearly five weeks, reducing the amount of time parliament sits before the critical Brexit Halloween deadline. Remainers are outraged. Brexiters are sceptical. But what happens next? Is proroguing parliament legal? That’s a tough one. Certainly, Johnson’s team wanted [...]
Yi 4K Action Camera review: This budget GoPro imitator is easily as good as a GoPro September 1, 2016 The recent and unrelenting proliferation of “action cameras” suggests lots of action is happening all around us, even though apart from the time I saw a very tall man in cargo shorts long-boarding in the bus lane, and Jeremy Vine getting shouted at by an irate driver, I can’t remember seeing much that was worth recording. [...]
London tech heavyweights call for European talent to remain in the capital following Brexit vote June 30, 2016 The London tech community has called for non-UK Europeans working in the sector to stay following the country’s vote to quit the European Union. Russ Shaw, founder of lobby group Tech London Advocates (TLA), has gathered around 150 signatures, including the Mayor of London and the likes of entrepreneur and angel investor Sherry Coutu and co-chief executive of digital literacy [...]
Sir Terry Wogan passes away after short illness at the age of 77 January 31, 2016 Sir Terry Wogan has passed away at the age of 77 following a short illness his family told the BBC. The veteran broadcaster spent a large part of his career working at the BBC, hosting his own talk show Wogan and presenting shows such as Children in Need and Eurovision among many TV appearances, as well as hosting popular radio [...]
After Jeremy Corbyn’s Twitter account was hacked, t-shirts go on sale calling David Cameron “a pie” January 11, 2016 Last night, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn seemed to have had his Twitter account hacked, and among the fairly puerile, profane and unprofessional messages the unknown hackers decided to post, was the profound "Davey Cameron is a pie". Understandably, social media went into meltdown. Didn't take long to find out who hacked into Jeremy Corbyn's Twitter account to write "DAVEY [...]
Interview: The life of Limmy September 21, 2015 Brian Limmond, AKA Limmy, is the type of comedian you’d have a hard time explaining to your gran. The former web-designer rose to fame with a caustic blog, which was followed up by a sketch-based podcast. He hosts regular webcam sessions and often invites fans to play Counter Strike with him. These days he spends [...]