Control freakery

Sarah Sands, outgoing editor of Today on Radio 4, tells Spectator readers that she was never after promotion at the BBC.

"To have no interest in any higher rung on the corporate ladder confers freedom, but federal powers tend inexorably to exercise control over member states. Over time I came to realise how much sovereignty means to me, and handed in my notice last week."

And muses on the speed her decision became public....

"I submitted my resignation early last Thursday, imagining it to be a private matter. Half an hour later, the Times correspondent Matthew Moore tweeted the news."