Do the fates conspire? Bill Morton, acting boss at the Scottish Qualifications Authority, must have thought so during his stylish Powerpoint presentation to MSPs about his hatchet job - er, operational review.
Dutiful parliamenarians must have been impressed with the changes in hand and explanations until the luckless Morton pressed the key to bring up a slide of management structures. Zilch.
What you might call a problem of missing data.