Mandrake was chuffed to see the Labour politician Kevin Brennan quizzing Lord Michael Grade at the DCMS select committee on his Ofcom appointment about his flop production of Man of La Mancha. Brennan could only have picked that up from this column, as hardly anybody but me knew it was Grade who was the producer. In the Guardian, John Crace writes: “that hurt Grade”.
Rupert Murdoch’s Times, meanwhile, finally caught up – three days later – with my disclosure that the collapse of Digme Fitness – an outfit backed by the chancellor’s wife, Akshata Murthy – has left the taxpayer with debts of £415,000. As my old boss Nigel Dempster used to say, you read it here first.
