Also at the Time event was Observer editor Roger Alton, looking tanned and relaxed in the final days of his gardening leave. Monkey caught him outside having a cigarette with his former executive editor Kamal Ahmed, now communications director for the new Equality and Human Rights Commission. What has Roger been doing on this gardening leave? Watching Mad Men. But all that changes Monday week, July 1, when he starts as editor of the Independent.
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