The City regulator is scrutinising working practices inside HSBC in the wake of revelations that the Swiss subsidiary of Britain's biggest bank helped its clients avoid tax.
He was always scrutinising working conditions, criticising claims to power and the hegemony of economically powerful players, and demanded participation opportunities for everyone.
Grieve, who chairs parliament's intelligence and security committee scrutinising the work of MI5 and MI6, was sacked last July after four years as attorney general.
The commission's remit will be to "embrace the opportunities afforded by the digital world to become more effective in representing the people, making laws and scrutinising the work and performance of government.
His reply to inquires about the secret of his musical success was deliberately opaque: "I was obliged to be industrious; whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well".Sir John arrives at better answers by closely scrutinising the work.
The demands in a letter from the international development secretary, Priti Patel, come after one of Britain's biggest aid contractors orchestrated the sending of supportive statements to MPs scrutinising their work.
The bigger problem on the horizon is the next full meeting of the Metropolitan police authority, the body responsible for scrutinising the work of Scotland Yard, on 28 July.
Next week may see a significant development on this front, with the culture, media and sport select committee, responsible for scrutinising the work of the department, due to start taking oral evidence in an inquiry into library closures.
The watchdog tasked with scrutinising the work of Britain's intelligence agencies is to demand an urgent report from GCHQ about revelations that the phone, internet and email records of British citizens have been analysed and stored by America's National Security Agency.
It will scrutinise the work of the Department for Exiting the European Union, headed by David Davis.
