P-p-p-party

So the departing DG's do is over. No marks to the BBC spinner who said the big screen tribute to Mark Thompson was being paid for by Worldwide, so that it wasn't a burden on licence fee-payers. It's still money that could have been used to make real programmes. Unless there was some savage last minute sharpening, the film had "worthy" rather than "gag-fest" written in the weft; hosted by, yes, Alan Yentob, and featuring El Tel Wogan, Miranda Hart and vignettes from Hugh Bonneville and other cast members in their 2012 comedy personae.

Guests evidenced by Twitter included Raymond Blanc, Kirsty Wark, Stephen Moffatt, ex press chief Donald Steel, BBC correspondent Frank Gardner and some bloke from the Church and Media Network. Was that Jools Holland on the piano ?

Meanwhile, scrutineers of the new Entwistle organogram note that today's changes mean George has an odd new bunch of direct reports, including said Yentob, strategist John Tate and Worldwide money-spinner John Barry Smith. Is this some sort of Deloitte naughty step ? What do they have to do to get off it ?