I popped out to the pictures, and blow me, Carrie Symonds, who lost over Sajid Javid, has won one back - getting Boris Johnson to put her old boss John Whittingdale back into the DCMS. Sensitive BBC managers should be prevented from Googling the 1929 St Valentine's Day Massacre.
For the benefit of new readers, let's precis
the life of John Flasby Lawrance Whittingdale. In 2016, former BBC Director of Radio Helen Boaden described him as a man with a "cycloptic obession with needlessly diminishing the BBC’s services to the benefit of its competitors."
He likes
heavy metal, and is a particular fan of Deep Purple.
He's no fan of
James Purnell.
He got
a black eye in June 2016.
He squired
a dominatrix to the 2013 MTV Awards in Amsterdam.
His special advisers in his first run at Culture included
Carrie Symonds and
Mimi Macejkova.
And here's Whittingdale's own words on
the utterly transparent process of Charter Renewal, over monthly dinners with Tony Hall.
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