Tuesday Jan 8th 2008
Lipstick on a pig?
News that Stephen Carter is to take over as grand vizier at Downing Street has been greeted by the usual ‘friends’ telling the world how capable, energetic, visionary etc etc he is. All such appointments are greeted in this way until the gloss wears off and the individual is revealed in fact to be querulous, lecherous, paralysed by indecision, and of unsound mind.
The PM will be glad to know that Salieri has some (very limited) contact with Carter and on this basis can state that he seems to suffer from none of these vices. Although his early life was blighted by being a lawyer, he recovered to be a rather good CEO at J Walter Thompson and – although it pains one to admit this – did a decent job at Ofcom. But, as his decision to go into government indicates, he has always had an eye on the main chance: he was allegedly infamous for the rather obvious way he angled for a senior media job during his later months at Ofcom.
Salieri | 2:33pm |
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