Mail wants Young's Head? - Reshuffling and A bygone time

Mrs May has a job on her hands (on top of all the rest)- if she asked me for my suggestion on her reshuffle I'd recommend she effectively anoints her successor and that should be Chancellor Phil 'Spreadsheet' Hammond, it could (for once) be a sign of 'Country before Party'.

Mail message is clear

An irritation and diversion for May is the mess around appointment of Toby Young to (yet another body) the new University's UK  Regulator


I'm not someone who generally wishes things as they were but can't help thinking that it's not so long ago that someone like the ex Journalist (yet another one) Toby Young would have recognised that it would be a wiser thing for him to step aside from the role on the board .


If Young  was up for a job on '8 out of 10 cats or some similar TV show his CV would be a good fit - in a role where he's regulating education it's not quite so good (and there's a feeling going around that  his presence on it weakens this regulator considerably).

What 'Middle England@ thinks?

Interesting too to see current Education Minister, Justine Greening ( that rare animal a State educated Woman Minister) who is responsible for the body  has her job under threat  - her removal from the Education portfolio could mean that Toby Young goes with less of a fuss too?




Coverage of the appointment of Toby Young does emphasise the clique that remains too powerful and unaccountable, with no clear accountability.

Although having said that he does seem remarkably short of friends (as of course his Book & Film suggests).

Two Peas in a Pod?

I'm surprised at how The Mail on Sunday/Mail/Mail online  is covering this story (and many others about the Government) - seems to me there's an Agenda that is distinctly anti- Boris (and to  a lesser extent anti-Gove), I'm no fan of either but a little suspicious about the paper's motivation.



Bring on the reshuffle.

BBC RADIO

Nice programme -Good Luck Professor Spiegelhalter - sets out to debunk the idea of luck (??) for me does the opposite but did make me think, liked his personal page -seems an interesting man with plenty of honours too.