There's a good interview with John Fingleton in today's Times. I think Fingleton lectured me when I was an economics undergrad, before he moved on to the Competition Authority. He always seemed like a very nice guy. Anyway, he's now chief executive of the UK's Office of Fair Trading and is doing an excellent job to my mind.

The best line in the interview has him reflecting on his relative anonymity, where most people seem to think that the OFT has something to do with coffee:

'It was the same when I was in Ireland at the Competition Authority,' he says. 'We had schools writing in asking what competitions we were organising.'