Newspaper columnist fired after writing anti-semitic (and sexist) article

'Controversialist' Kevin Myers, writing in the Sunday Times Irish edition about the BBC pay disparity, suggested TV and Radio presenters Vanessa Feltz and Claudia Winkleman were more highly paid because they are Jewish.

Kevin Myers' Sunday Times article on BBC pay removed after being branded "anti-Semitic" & "disgraceful" https://t.co/dGva9KXUOt

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) July 30, 2017

Myers was objecting to the call by high-profile BBC women employees that the corporation do something to tackle the gender pay gap.

His article, entitled 'Sorry Ladies, but equal pay has to be earned' was circulated widely on Twitter:

When you're wondering how a S Times column titled 'sorry ladies - equal pay has to be earned' can get more offensive http://pic.twitter.com/Fx83AL5WQL

— Dina Rickman (@dinarickman) July 30, 2017

It’s gone, now but I just don’t want you to miss this - only the 15th maddest thing in that Kevin Myers piece http://pic.twitter.com/CkQmyOymHv

— Janine Gibson (@janinegibson) July 30, 2017

Myers, who belongs to that group of opinion writers who exist to cater to the worst instincts of the very worst people, must now seek employment elsewhere.

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