I won’t be the only person to notice the wags at Channel 4 TV scheduling appear to have pulled a fast one on former BBC Director General Greg Dyke. Having offered him the chance to make a documentary on the Hutton report and his departure from the BBC under the banner “Betrayed by New Labour” (Sunday 8pm), they schedule a film to follow entitled “Get Over It”! Hope this will find its way into Private Eye, or the diary pages somewhere. I suspect hubris played no small part in his own downfall. Will be watching for any signs of such self-awareness. In my humble opinion, they broke a fundamental rule of management and good journalism: don’t stir up a hornets’ nest unless you have access to full protection and it is absolutely necessary. A subsidiary rule: always beware the self-righteousness of long-distance runners. I hear Alastair Campbell, the one-time Blair spin doctor who led the charge against the BBC, recently competed in the London Triathlon. Worrying.

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