Having harried the City's watchdogs until they decided to institute disciplinary proceedings against some of the executives who ran HBOS into the ground, he's now after the body that is supposed to police the bank's auditors.
For the rest of us, those of us who are listening, acting as watchdogs until this shift takes place, it's important not to become complacent, even if policing is tiring.
In November, a radioactive leak occurred at the Asco 1 plant, but the owners did not tell the CSN, Spain's nuclear watchdog, until April.
Olli Heinonen, deputy director at the UN's nuclear watchdog until August, said the virus might be behind Iran's problems with uranium enrichment.
After an opposition group exposed the facility, in 2002, Iran said that it was not obliged to make a declaration to the U.N. watchdog agency until the plant was within six months of receiving nuclear material.
Media regulator Ofcom may not be ready to take on its new BBC watchdog role until at least next April, three months after the corporation's new charter is due to begin.
This, thought the commission, might be an abuse of its dominance in operating systems: buy a PC, and unless you took the trouble of choosing otherwise, you would browse the web through Explorer.In December that year Microsoft promised the watchdog that until 2014 it would provide a "choice screen", asking European Windows users whether they wanted to install another browser.
Their country is a leading practitioner of what is known in Southeast Asia as consensus politics, a system that is neither a Communist-style one-party state nor a winner-take-all democracy in which the opposition can play a watchdog role until it gets itself elected.
The CMA, created in April to replace other competition watchdogs, will consult until mid-September on its provisional conclusion that both small business and personal current account customers get a poor service from their banks and cannot tell the difference between products provided by the main players.
The former claim is, as always, being tested by internet providers, who continue to inject ads, block or throttle services, and otherwise interfere until customers and watchdogs call them out.
Until then, the more watchdogs sniffing around for intruders in the virtual marketplace, the better.
