Proof that God spins in mysterious ways? Cafod has declined its share of the royalties from its employee Damian McBride’s Power Trip memoir — but there are still calls from leading Catholics to expel him from his job as the Catholic aid agency’s media spokesman. Now, as the Cafod board prepares to meet this weekend, the Cafod website announces Gordon Brown’s former press adviser has been promoted.
McBride successfully applied for a new post of head of external communications, created from merging his own media team with a section named CCS, which handled corporate communications and creative work, such as the website. From running a team of six he now manages 17 employees. Oddly, the promotion took place last December and has only just been posted on the website.
Meanwhile, there’s still no white smoke from Finchley Catholic High School, which has yet to reveal whether it will accept royalties from the book. The Londoner has been trying to reach someone at the school for the past five days but has been greeted only with voicemail and elusive assurances that the necessary people are out of the office or too busy.
