With Christopher Meyer installed today as press complaints commission chairman, acting chairman Prof Robert Pinker has produced a valedictory statement.

valedictory (adj) 1: of or relating to an occasion or expression of farewell; ”a valedictory address”; ”valedictory praise for his uniformly manly course”; ”a suitable valedictory gesture” 2: of a speech expressing leave-taking; ”a valedictory address” [syn: farewell] – source: MediaGuardian 31.3.2003, p. 5