The Independent's campaign to unsettle Number 10's latest spin chief Craig Oliver continues unabated. Following Tuesday's hard-headed analysis of Oliver's choice of headphones (Dr Dre's Beats "denoting a middle-aged man keen to convince passers-by that he was once deeply into hip-hop"), High Street Ken now reports that at the World Service no love has been lost by Oliver's departure. The mood at World Service HQ was, according to one source, "surprise, celebration and relief" when Oliver's departure was announced – not least because he'd been controller of global news and therefore hatchet man for those cuts. Whatever communication skills David Cameron hired Oliver for, "there weren't many people at the World Service who saw that as one of his strengths". The piece closes with a pic of Oliver wearing lederhosen.
