Form Book 19

Odds and ends:  Matthew Bell in the Independent on Sunday says candidate-last-time Andrew Neil has ruled himself out of the 2012 BBC DG Stakes, thusly "I thought about that, but ruled it out. I'm having too much fun. We could do with a woman at the top, and we need a proven programmes person, who will concentrate on content. I'm backing Boaden."

From the Guardian's corrections and clarifications: Caroline Thomson, the BBC's chief operating officer and a contender for the post of director general, was described by the author of a profile as "comprehensive-educated". In fact she was a pupil of the Mary Datchelor girls' school in Camberwell, London, a voluntary-aided grammar school.

(The Mary Datchelor school closed in 1981, and the buildings have been converted to apartments. Caroline's contemporaries included actress Nichola McAulliffe, and writer Eleanor Updale aka Mrs James Naughtie, who joined the BBC as trainee at the same time as Caroline).

• I've predicted before that this should all be sorted before Wimbledon. It might be even better if it was done and dusted by 15th June - when candidates Boaden and Thomson are set to feature in the York University Alumni Weekend, hosted by Chancellor and curtailed DG Greg Dyke.