Structured properly, staggered appointments of fixed-term seats would also ensure that each new president, reflecting the mandate of his or her election, would get an appointment or two.
He cut his teeth in the lower levels with Yeovil and City and, given the space (and time) to do the job properly, is a sound appointment.
Thielemann is the outgoing music director of the Deutsche Oper - he resigned last year because he felt that he was not properly consulted over the appointment of the new intendant - and Barenboim runs the Staatsoper in the former east Berlin.
Even Margaret Hodge, chairwoman of the powerful Public Accounts Committee, who is supportive of Sir David's "fantastic" record, told The Independent on Sunday that it "would have been better to have handled the process properly" and that the appointment had been made in a "panic".
But those listeners need to go for Radio 1 to do its job properly, and Grimshaw's appointment is a strong move in its ongoing battle to lower the average age of its listeners from 32, where it currently stands, to the 15- to 29-year-old audience the station has herniated itself attempting to court over the past six years.
The recess in question, however, was two weeks long - and thus a recess of sufficient length to properly trigger the President's appointments power.
"There will be future appointments that will be properly advertised in a transparent way, and I would encourage applications from all candidates," she told peers.
Brazil, which provides antiretroviral drug treatment free to its people, has found that even poor and uneducated patients take their medicine properly when they keep their doctors' appointments and get good services.
A source close to the Labour leader said: "The Prime Minister must make clear whether he considered all aspects of the appointment [of Lord Leveson] properly.
You fall down on the job, miss doctor appointments, stop exercising, stop eating properly.
