The MPs' pay rise is perfectly sensible | Simon Jenkins

Don't let anger at public officials blind one to the need to pay an appropriate salary. Pay less and we'd only get worse MPs

In the matter of pay, I am on the side of MPs. Their present salary of £66,000 is modest by professional standards, though we know they found devious ways of getting it considerably higher. After the scandal of their "second homes" and other devices, they sensibly parked their remuneration off-shore with an independent adjudicator.

That adjudicator has now judged that MPs...