When a plum post is in the government’s gift, there’s little MPs can do to change the same-old same-old
• Michael Grade faces tough questions over fitness to lead Ofcom
“I feel a strange sense of deja vu,” I blurted out in the splendour of the wood-panelled parliamentary committee room with its battle-scene oil paintings and creepy portraits of the great and the good of past ages with eyes that almost follow you round the room.
“Sorry that it’s Groundhog Day,” Orlando Fraser QC, the subject of our MPs’ inquiry, shot back, playing his part in the masquerade but also genuinely apologetic.
