As talks resumed at Stormont to revive the assembly, under the chairmanship of the Northern Ireland secretary, Paul Murphy, and junior Irish foreign minister Tom Kitt, Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness urged the hardline DUP to strike a deal as quickly as possible.
It would be too much to expect any kind of apology from the intelligence and security committee, which under the chairmanship of the tainted Sir Malcolm Rifkind was quick to discredit the Snowden disclosures, for failing to tell the public about what GCHQ has actually been up to all these years.
The state is lead by a tripartite presidency, a chairmanship that rotates every 8 months, 13 jurisdictions, 130 ministers and 148 municipalities.
This year, the gossip will center around attendee Janet Yellen, a vice-chair of the Federal Reserve – and one of the frontrunners for the chairmanship.
Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary-general, is urging David Cameron to use Britain's chairmanship of the G8 to end some of the "unconscionable" practices of companies exploiting Africa's vast reserves of natural resources.
EU spokeswoman Catherine Ray said on Tuesday the ban would be lifted when he is travelling "under his African Union chairmanship capacity".
Notwithstanding its new more detached, regulatory role (the one Grade apparently couldn't face playing) the Trust under Grade's chairmanship would broadly have been at one with a vision of the BBC that sees popularity and public purpose as good bedfellows not mortal enemies.
Warsi may be deeply disliked by some senior Tories who see her as vain, unprincipled, self-centred and motivated by animus at her demotion from the party chairmanship in 2012.
"This review recognises that the BMA chief officer posts, and the chairmanship of BMA council in particular, are not only the pinnacles of a doctor's medico-political career but that such posts are recognised leadership posts at the top of the profession, not only in the UK but internationally too," it added.
May has been awarded a chairmanship of one minor Whitehall committee out of 24 – a taskforce on mitigating the risk of people returning to the UK from Syria.
Luckily, party rules say that it is a governor's turn to have the chairmanship of the committee that draws up the manifesto this time (the job rotates).
