Do you remember our old friend Aaqil Ahmed - the BBC's first Muslim Head of Religion and Ethics, and the man who took Songs of Praise to the illegal immigrants camp in Calais and compared the immigrants to Jesus, Mary and Joseph fleeing King Herod.
He left the BBC in 2016. Guess where he is now?
Well, News-watch's David Keighley report today that he's among the latest batch of ex-BBC members appointed to Ofcom's various boards.
All three of the latest intake are ex-BBC.
All three of the latest intake are ex-BBC.
Also, 8 of the Ofcom content board's 13 members are ex-BBC - and they're the ones who rule on BBC bias.
It's an endless revolving door, isn't it?
Aaqil, if you're wondering, has been busy since leaving the BBC: I see from Linkedin that he's been a Professor of Media at Bolton University (no, me neither), a media consultant to various companies and a non-executive director at the Advertising Standards Agency.
Yes, I knew about the Professor of Media(!) University post as I heard him back on the BBC reviewing the papers, on I think, Broadcasting House.
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