What a mercy for Charles Moore that Jonathan Ross left the BBC long before Margaret Thatcher died.
The biographer of the late Iron Lady has been promoted on the airwaves with great frequency. On Saturday Moore appeared on a major Thatcher documentary on BBC2 and the following day there was an audio diary by him on Radio 4.
This week the book is being read each day by Nicholas Farrell as Radio 4’s Book of the Week.
Surely this would not have happened if the former editor of The Daily Telegraph was continuing his long-running dispute with the BBC, refusing to pay the licence fee for as long as it employed Jonathan Ross.
“All settled years ago because J Ross left,” he tells me.
How the BBC embraces its old enemies. Alastair Campbell has become a popular broadcaster since he attacked the corporation over its coverage of the Iraq War.
