Qualifications

You have just over a week to pitch in for the chairmanship of Ofcom (three days a week, salary 'appropriate' but apparently a secret, which is ripe for someone charged with poking around the BBC).

Shortlisted candidates can get a chat with Sharon White, Ofcom CEO or Deputy Chair Baroness Noakes. Baroness Noakes, an accountant by training, is a Conservative peer, who has been deputy to Patricia Hodgson, one-time Conservative candidate for Islington, for three years. Activist website Conservative Home has been urging 'qualified Conservatives' to apply.

• Ofcom has yet to published its 2017 pay report. The 2016 edition showed the organisation's gender pay gap at just under 14%. The BBC claims its gap to be 10%.