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According to the Sunday Telegraph (which really ought to know), Charles Moore, a former editor of both the Sunday and the Daily Telegraph, and a current Telegraph columnist, has decided not to apply to be the next chairman of the BBC – despite being reportedly Boris Johnson’s favourite candidate.
This will no doubt be a disappointment to Michael Gove, the Cabinet Office minister, who has used an interview with the Mail on Sunday today to described Moore as an ideal candidate.
And here are two of my colleagues on Boris Johnson’s new advice to people to “behave fearlessly but with common sense”. (See 11.52am.)
From John Crace, the sketchwriter
‘Fearlessly with common sense’. New Boris bollocks. I’m going for ‘risk averse with recklessness’ instead
In his Marr interview, Boris Johnson preaches the need to behave with “fearlessness and common sense”. Put that in the drawer along with all the other focus grouped messages that leaves the British public havering on the threshold of their front door.
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