Obviously, I avoid this whenever, but just caught a bit before the football.

It was a 5 min summary. The main story was "IDS says nothing we could do about Hester's bonus". After the newsreader saying this, we had a clip of IDS saying it too, complete with "contract we inherited from Labour" and rubbish about how we'd have to get rid of the board.

No word on the contract being contested.

The political reporters on ITV are either Tories like Tom Bradby or lightweights who can't be arsed to do any proper research so just rely on government briefings and gossip.

In terms of the government being bound by contracts signed by the previous government Michael Gove had no problem taring up contracts for building new schools as soon as he got his foot in the door at the Department of education.

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La La Lansley hasn't been inhibited by them, either.

The Independent says it's seen the contract and reckons the government can block the pay award.

The FT, while saying Hester had done a "fair" job, reckoned the bonus terms just sound like basic work of a Chief Executive. I haven't seen it comment on whether the bonus can be blocked.

If the need is to reflect the real world, this is interesting:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/news ... mmell.html

Energy company drops £2.5bn bonus after pressure from shareholders.

And this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/news ... nuses.html

Barclays shareholders warning against big bonuses.

You can just see them snapping up Hester and the RBS Board (who IDS reckoned would all have resigned or something).

Here we go. Ed Milliband "leading a revolt against its own policy".

Not if the bonus was discretionary.

Tommy Sheridan "Scottish political firebrand"

Unlike the perfectly sensible Mr Gove.

If you look at the backgrounds of some of their main correspondence it's hardly surprising they spout such drivel. Laura Kuenssberg is now Business editor of ITV News yet she has no background in business apart from her father being a businessman. Equally until recently Daisy McAndrew was Economics editor even though she has no background in economics, she didn't go to university and got her break when she got a job working for Charles Kennedy.

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I've always suspected the same of their weather presenters. Though Laura worked for the BBC, so it's not such a leap, perhaps.

The big splash on Gary and Mrs Speed having a row before he killed himself looked very tasteless to me.

Yeah, but she was a politics reporter - not a business correspondent.

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Good point.

Didn't watch. But you know the way they fire out a "teaser" story before the bulletin starts?

That was the Speed story. Presented in that tasteless way.

This is the sort of case discussed at Leveson with the tabloid editors, the difference between 'in the public interest' and 'of interest to the public'. In my opinion it may well be of interest to the public (not necessarily for reasons of mawkishness) but has little public interest - that is there is no issue of wrongdoing or failure in office.

The Times, before Christmas, tried to make the case that speculating on the Speed case was IN the public interest, and got rightly chewed up by their own readers.

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Fifteen seconds... you can't breathe.

Twenty seconds... you give up and turn off the Jeremy Vine show.

But I thought Tom Brady was a good guy because he blew the lid off the phone hacking scandal?