UK Regulator's New Boss

As though OFCOM, the UK telecommunications regulator, were not enough of a laughing stock, the organisation is to be headed - if Boris Johnson has his way - by former - and highly controversial - Daily Mail editor, Paul Dacre.

 

Dacre's most recent shame was to encourage public hatred of the judiciary - who had done nothing but apply law to the Government's extremely long suspension of Parliament during the Brexit process, and found it unlawful.  Dacre ran the now infamous and appalling headline in his paper, which he eventually resigned from.

Almost as bad is the fact that Dacre has been a long-standing and aggressive critic of OFCOM, repeatedly calling for its demise.  Now, no doubt enticed with a very good pay packet, Dacre could now run the body he hitherto so despised.  At least one national newspaper has called this "a joke".

None of this, of course, bodes well for either OFCOM or those who are subject to and depend upon it, including amateur radio service users.