Benedict Brogan brings us this newsflash from his blog at DailyMail.co.uk:
Downing Street has announced that Alex Allan is to become the new chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee. He is currently permanent secretary to the Ministry of Justice and has held a number of senior Whitehall posts, including PPS to John Major in the final days (he knows what the inside of a bunker looks like). He is also a committed Deadhead, who runs a website devoted to the oeuvre of the Grateful Dead. And as you would expect of a man who is ahead of the game on all things IT, he has his own website (which I suspect will be dismantled fairly shortly by the nice folk down Millbank way).
If you use Allan’s Grateful Dead lyric finder to search on ‘spook’, then it comes up with this:
It strolls the sidewalk and it rolls the streets
Staking turf, dividing up meat
Nightmare spook, piece of heat
It’s you and me, you and me
Er… indeed it is.
