Though she's doubtless being singled out by the papers for special unfavourable attention at the moment (especially given that lots of other MPs will also have received pots of money from the BBC over the years), the Daily Mail's investigation into Diane Abbott's monetary dealings with the BBC is still quite eye-opening. (The Express and the Sun later 'lifted' the Mail's scoop).
It gives us another insight into how things work between the BBC and politicians.
Until becoming shadow home secretary (when the BBC stopped paying her), the car-crash-prone Labour MP received £700 for every appearance on This Week and, in total (as the Sun puts it), "raked in a whopping £110,000 of licence fee payers’ money for appearing on the BBC" (since 2003, it seems).
