With Sunak making overtures to BBC Verify in the Question Time debate while arguing with audience members, pressure is at an all-time high for the team to expose fakery. Applications closed this month for a new hire at the BBC Verify team. Joining the 63 people in the team with combined salary costs of £3.2 million will be a “correspondent with extensive experience of open-source and data journalism“. Does someone need to help Marianna Spring with numbers?

The junior hire will get up to a whopping £69,443 to “deliver agenda-setting forensic journalism in a clear, distinctive and impactful way across multiple platforms“, plus extra London weighting. That’s well above the £29-39,000 that other junior hires at the BBC can expect to pocket. Guido hopes the applicants made sure their CVs were true and accurate…