Lording it

Delighted for Tony Hall, who's been made a peer by the House of Lords Appointments Commission.
I fully expect most of the BBC's intake of news trainees in 1973 to merit similar recognition. Eventually.

Tony's been decisive recently; having accepted the hot potato of delivering a Cultural Olympiad for London, he's re-designed the brief, saying the title "lacked clarity", but asserting the decision won't mean less spending on the Arts in and around 2012. We await the new title with interest.