If you want to understand Education Secretary Michael Gove's motivation for sacking Ofsted boss Sally Morgan, the first thing you need to grasp is that Baroness Morgan is very right wing.

Morgan, who was one of Tony Blair's key aides, is completely committed to academy schools, putting bankers in charge of education, privatisation and business lobbying.

She thoroughly believes in all the values held dear by Gove.

She was even one of the key planners of the Iraq war, which should please Gove as he is one of the keenest "war on terror" warriors on the Tory front bench.

So if Gove wants to replace Morgan with someone more right wing, he is pushing even more to the extreme.

Gove said: "Sally is a hugely talented individual" when he made her head of Ofsted in 2011.

He was consciously appointing one of the worst people from the Blair years. Morgan was Blair's "political secretary" during the Iraq war.

One of the key documents of that war, the "Downing Street memo," records an "extremely sensitive" meeting of Blair's officials in the run-up to war.

The memo includes the admission - not shared with the public - that the "intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy" and the WMD "case was thin."

The memo is addressed to 10 people, including the heads of the army, intelligence service, the defence and foreign secretaries - and Sally Morgan.

Morgan knew about the fiddled Iraq intelligence but was still happy to sit in meetings between George W Bush and Blair.

She was central to the arm-twisting of Labour MPs to vote for the war, and was then sent out to try to calm them when no WMD were found.

After leaving government Morgan enthusiastically joined the Blairite hobby of grabbing as many corporate appointments as possible, including jobs with US healthcare firm Humana, Lloyds the chemists and Carphone Warehouse.

In 2006 Morgan became director of care home company Southern Cross. While she was on the board Southern Cross went into financial meltdown.

The Care Quality Commission, which regulates care homes, regularly exposed grim treatment of old folks in the Southern Cross homes Morgan was paid to run.

Being criticised by one regulator was, for Gove, the perfect qualification for taking charge of another regulator, Ofsted.

Morgan works for Absolute Return for Kids (ARK), a group of hedge fund bosses who run academy schools.

In 2010 Morgan was caught in a Channel 4 Dispatches sting which exposed former ministers offering to help fake lobbyists influence government policy.

Morgan claimed she had this kind of influence. She said she won a £15 million grant from the government to pay "Future Leaders," an offshoot of ARK which was training potential head teachers.

This was a perfect match between Gove and new Labour ideas - paying bankers to train head teachers.

Morgan claimed she got the money because of "knowing who to scream at in the department."

Morgan also boasted of her Tory links, saying: "I know Michael Gove people better than Ed Balls people."

Her appointment as the head of Ofsted shows that this was true. But the fact he is now trying to cast her aside shows she didn't know the real dark heart of Gove.

Morgan may be absurdly right wing, but no longer right-wing enough for Gove as his fever dreams of mass privatisation and compulsory Latin for all kicks in.

Olympic sleaze is nothing new

John Sweeney's Panorama on the Sochi Winter Olympics reported "allegations of massive corruption."

Panorama reflected widespread reporting that President Vladimir Putin used the £30 billion of games cash to reward his friends, with money spent on poor-value, overpriced building work and services run by businessmen close to the government.

Similarly the Los Angeles Times says: "Tired of hearing reports about alleged corruption and budget overruns, some Russian citizens have given the 2014 Sochi Olympics a nickname: Kickbacktiada."

Are the Winter Olympics corrupt? It is very likely.

After all, look at the crony capitalism we had about the British Olympics - massive wasteful contracts were handed to associates of the British government, so it's hardly a surprise if more of the same happens in Russia.

This isn't an excuse for Putin, it is a badge of shame for Britain.

Somehow, all the reporters looking at Sochi seem to have forgotten what happened in Britain, so here is a reminder. In 2011 property investor Jamie Ritblat's company Delancey bought the Olympic athletes' village.

Eton-educated Ritblat is turning the athletes' village into expensive flats and houses. His firm bought the Olympic village with Qatar investment vehicle Qatari Diar for £557 million. That's nearly £300m less than the Olympic Delivery Authority had paid to build it.

Just a few months before the deal Delancey made a £50,000 donation to the Conservative Party.

The Conservative Party website says £50,000 guarantees membership of a "donors' club" called the Leaders Group.

This is the "premier supporter group of the Conservative Party. Members are invited to join David Cameron and other senior figures from the Conservative Party at dinners, lunches and drinks receptions."

So, shortly after donating to the Tories, a property firm gets to buy Olympic flats at a £257m loss to the taxpayer.

This wasn't the only crappy London Olympic deal.

G4S had a £284m contract to provide security at the Olympics.

G4S has had a long history of hiring government ministers - it had Tory Norman Fowler on the board in the 1990s, when it first started winning big privatisation contracts.

In 2008 it took on former Labour home secretary John Reid as a consultant.

G4S has also hired top officials. Former Treasury official and regulator Claire Spottiswoode sits on the G4S board.

Phil Wheatley, formerly Home Office boss of prisons and probation, left to join G4S in 2010.

So in every sense G4S is an "associate" of the government. It also gave a textbook example of a "wasteful" contract. It simply failed to recruit the Olympic security guards that it promised, so 3,500 troops had to be sent in to bail out the firm.

So anyone who wants to understand what kind of corruption might have taken place at Sochi doesn't need to read Russian or have special knowledge of Putin's pals.

They just need to read some old British newspapers and understand our own kickback city.