Do you wanna be in my gang ?

Meanwhile, in other seismic changes, the BBC's much-heralded re-structuring is now pushed back to September.

Ben Dowell, in the Radio Times, says DG Lord Hall is still having trouble finding a suitable Director of Content - presumably to ride the three-humped camel genetically engineered by McKinsey. Sources have told Mr Dowell that born-again music and documentary lover James Purnell, expecting to form the hump marked "Educate", is "finding the process frustrating". There are those who would prefer that his frustration is never resolved.

There may be more flouncing before this is finished.