Guido’s eyes and ears over at Northcliffe House report that the outgoing Bank of England chairman Mervyn King has just had a chummy goodbye with Paul Dacre in the atrium. While Merv apparently sits on DMGT’s pension board, the presence of Alex Brummer at the tête-à-tête have lead over there to some speculation a new columnist may have been signed up. It will give him somewhere else to be wrong when he stands down next year…