David Aaronovitch on the former director-general of the Bleeb:
In Shanghai I was spared the full and inevitable force of many of my journalistic colleagues’ determination to tell the world that Hutton (and not them) had got it all wrong. What I did see on CNN, however, was the weird sight of an outgoing director-general of the BBC glad-handing an insurrectionary crowd of his own ex-employees…
The other odd thing that Greg has done has been to sign up to Rupert Murdoch’s HarperCollins publishers for a big advance to tell his story…
Now as it happens I was at a dinner with Greg and Tessa Jowell and a number of others back in September… and the one thing that stood out was the vehemence of the then DG’s attack on Murdoch and all his works, and on the government for tolerating the Antipodean-American tycoon. It was a magnificent and heartfelt performance and – doubtless – sincere at the time.