It’s a funny old world we inhabit nowadays, one in which everyone is an expert – and no-one.
Take, for example, former chancellor George Osborne who, it turns out, has discovered a talent for journalism and will edit the Evening Standard: its owner, Evgeny Lebedev, was reportedly over the moon at achieving such a catch.
Clearly this is part of a pattern. Now my forthcoming retirement in the summer is common knowledge, I’m expecting offers to flood in: from Arsenal, perhaps, to replace Arsene Wenger (after all, he’s six years older than I am); then there’s deputy director of MI5 (the current holder’s moving to GCHQ): and is there still an opening for a new ambassador to the US given that Nigel Farage was deemed unsuitable?
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