Options

The snap of a Government-memo-meant-to-be-a-secret, showing options for privatising C4 are under consideration, is entertaining.

According to the Guardian, C4 chairman Lord Burns is working on a "not-for-profit" option, but the memo asks that C4 opens its books to the Shareholder Executive to look at other possibilities.

And, lo, at the Shareholder Executive, we have non-executive director Caroline Thomson, BBC DG manque, who spent 11 years at C4, first in charge of science and business programmes and latterly as Head of Corporate Affairs.