Charles Moore is highly intelligent, charming, loyal to his friends, relentlessly courteous, an outstanding biographer (the Thatcher oeuvre is magnificent) and his columns in the Telegraph are worth the effort. I disagree with nearly all of them, but they expose me to arguments that are – if bad for my blood pressure – well worth grappling with. He would also be a disastrous choice to become the next BBC chair.
You might as well have Philip Green in charge of the UK’s Pension Protection Fund, or Rupert Murdoch in charge of the press regulator Ipso. Come to think of it, don’t rule that one out – because in addition to the prospect of Lord Moore settling into his office at Broadcasting House, we are told that Paul Dacre is to be chair of Ofcom – where he will be in charge of upholding broadcasting standards and ruling on impartiality.
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