Hargreaves to enter the UK's IP Maze

Following Gordon Brown’s Gowers Report, it has clearly become a British constitutional convention that the oft-repeated task of reviewing IP law be given to a financial journalist - no experience of, or qualification in, law, IP, business or economics required.
Andrew Gowers himself left his job as editor of the FT (in his own words “not entirely voluntarily”) and, after the Gowers Report, went on to work at Lehmans, then BP, and academia. New Labour, Lehmans, BP ... a whole flotilla of sinking ships. In the end, Mr Gowers didn't do such a bad job on IP, so we wish him well in future, and hope he can swim.
His counterpart on David Cameron's hastily-announced IP Review (described in the Daily Telegraph as an "ineffectual waste of money") is to be Ian Hargreaves, who, after working at the FT, was editor at the Independent before being parachuted into editing the ever-ailing New Statesman by Geoffrey Robinson (New Labour’s Paymaster General); since then he has held a number of lobbying and consulting posts in and around Whitehall, and is a Professor within the Meeja Studies group at Cardiff University.
Hargreaves sounds, from his appearances on Radio 4's Moral Maze, like a nice, liberally-inclined fellow - but is he ready for the IP Maze? His only prior connection with the task seems to be a report he did called "The Heart of Digital Wales" (that beating heart is, we presume, located not too far from Cardiff), which was more concerned with spending Welsh funds within the existing system than with reforming it.
We suspect that this is just another "mission impossible" which will enable poor Hargreaves (like his predecessor) to blast the IP ball deep into the long grass for a while, like any good enquiry should.
As Gowers said, after completing his work, "You have to start from the realisation that intellectual property is in fact a global system. It just happens to operate through national jurisdictions. So the idea that dear old Britain would somehow reinvent the rules of the road and in just one country is almost laughable you know." Prepare to laugh.