Panelling

Tonight's planned panel event hosted by the Jewish Chronicle has been cancelled, apparently because of the sudden withdrawal of unnamed guests. 

It was to have featured, Jonathan Levy, Managing Director and Executive Editor of Sky News UK; retired politician Michael Gove, a contributor to the Jewish Chronicle; David Aaronovitch, presenter of BBC Radio 4's Briefing Room and newly-resigned as a Jewish Chronicle columnist;  Melanie Phillips, social commentator for the Times and a columnist for the Jewish Chronicle; and Richard Burgess, Director of News Content at the BBC. The chair was to have been Jake Wallis Simons, JC Editor.

David Aaronovitch, in a note on his resignation, implies he wasn't one who pulled out. Is it possible that the chair was having second thoughts ? Might he have been too much on the receiving end of questions about the ownership of the JC, and the mechanics of acquiring pieces from 'journalist', 'professor' and 'former Entebbe operations man', Elon Perry, now withdrawn ?