STV is making a profit. So why take the axe to its excellent current affairs output? | Kevin McKenna

The new CEO, Simon Pitts, has announced that 59 jobs are to go, most of them in news – and all of the STV2 channelScotland was treated to a rare but timely reminder last week of how industrial relations were conducted in the Victorian era. Perhaps we have become so accustomed to the benefits of workplace rights, trade union protection, the living wage and a degree of job security that we have grown soft. Our employment expectations have become so unreasonably high that there are risks to o