Nimble Dimble

Is there a reverse ferret underway ?  If Twitter and web timings are right, 17 hours ago we had this tweet from inside the BBC.....

@jonathancmunro @samtaylornews @paulroyall This would be Dimbleby's 10th General Election which would be a very fitting end before the handover to @huwbbc pic.twitter.com/kyItJpKEwI

— Adam Stewert (@AdamIby) April 19, 2017

The message was re-tweeted by Huw himself some 13 hours ago, which implies some sort of endorsement. Then Mail diarist Peter McKay declared that the gig had gone to Dimbleby, who will be 78 in October.

• A corrrespondent notes that Theresa May's opportunistic approach to fixed term Parliaments makes a nonsense of the 11 year charter deal for the BBC - designed to free Auntie from mere party politics when the next set of renewal negotiations start.