Thanks, BBC, for the expenses revelation – now tell us salaries

THE BBC's decision to publish details of the expense claims of its senior executives can be explained in two ways. One view is that the Corporation, which is subsidised by licence fee payers to the tune of £3.6 billion per year, feels it has a duty to tell us how it is spending our money. Doubtless this is what the BBC would like us to think.

But the other, more realistic, interpretation is that the Corporation is trying to head off its critics at the pass by yielding this information voluntarily.

The truth is that the BBC, like Members of Parliament, has used loopholes in the freedom ...