Artiste

If Stig Abell, leading the launch team for Times Radio, emerges as one of the station's breakfast presenters, I presume his fee will be negotiated by agent Alex Armitage - the man who secured Jeremy Vine a BBC deal worth over £700k.

For Stig, as well as editing the Times Literary Supplement, is a Noel Gay artiste.

"Away from print Stig can be heard as a regular presenter on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row... He also regularly reviews newspapers on Sky News, and has appeared as a pundit on almost every broadcast channel. In 2017 he stepped away from his LBC show which saw him every Sunday afternoon, rounding up the weeks news and looking ahead to upcoming events, cultural happenings and political debates.... Stig is as comfortable ploughing through Ulysses as he is dissecting the day’s papers."