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...Dame Melanie Dawes, Ofcom chief executive, told the Financial Times that she was becoming ever more worried by evidence suggesting news feeds are aggravating divisions in society, while the algorithms determining...
...Dame Melanie Dawes Former Treasury official Dawes has been running the media regulator Ofcom since 2020 on a salary of £324,000 a year, according to the latest figures....
...Melanie Dawes, chief executive of Ofcom, said: “At a time when household finances are under serious strain, customers need prices to be crystal clear.”...
...Dame Melanie Dawes, Ofcom’s chief executive, also sought to defend the regulator from criticism of its handling of the scandal so far....
...Dame Melanie Dawes, chief executive of Ofcom, said: “Most people are left confused by the sheer complexity and unpredictability of inflation-linked price rise terms written into their contract, which undermines...
...This week, Sotheby’s announced that it will auction Gustav Klimt’s late “Dame mit Fächer” (1917-18) for about £65mn, the highest estimate ever put on a work offered in Europe....
...Sotheby’s gave London’s slim summer auction season a boost this week with the above-estimate sale of Gustav Klimt’s “Dame mit Fächer” (“Lady with a Fan”, 1917-18) for £74mn (£83.3mn with fees), a record...
...However Dame Melanie Dawes, the chief executive of Ofcom, said that she wanted to see “a lot more people taking them up,” as the regulator announced plans to publish take-up of social tariffs by each provider...
...John Nicolson, a Scottish National party MP and member of the House of Commons media committee, warned Ofcom chief Dame Melanie Dawes in March of “a creeping politicisation and ‘Americanisation’ of news”...
...Dame Melanie Dawes, Ofcom chief executive, said: “Online videos play a huge role in our lives now, particularly for children....
...Other works on show will be a 2009 large-scale painting of a butterfly on purple grapes, recreated shelves of Persil washing products from 2015 and a more recent painting that shows the 2019 fire at Notre-Dame...
...Dame Melanie Dawes, chief executive of Ofcom, said that consumers had enjoyed “very strong value” in recent years with prices staying flat in real terms despite usage rising 80 per cent in the past two years...
...Dame Melanie Dawes, chief executive of media watchdog Ofcom, said Dyson’s report raised “important questions about the BBC’s transparency and accountability”....
...Shares in BT rose 5 per cent to 132.8p after Dame Melanie’s speech on Thursday. Redburn, the research company, said: “This is probably about as good as it can get . . . for BT.”...
...Dave Lewis, the former chief executive of Tesco, and Melanie Smith, chief executive of supermarket chain Ocado Retail, are among leading business figures recognised in a New Year honours list dominated by...
...The next day, Dorotheum in Vienna offers Hamdi Bey’s full-length portrait, “Dame turque de Constantinople” (1881): it made the artist’s previous auction record when it sold within estimate for £3.4m in 2008...
...“Chapeau” to France’s wealthiest collectors : François Pinault and family, powerful luxury business owners and art collectors, swiftly announced a €100m donation towards the repair of Notre-Dame Cathedral...
...He says that while Transvaal-born artist Irma Stern (1894-1966) has long been the “grande dame” of the modern art market, the black South African artists of the 20th century are now being rediscovered....
...Made a Dame of the British empire in 2016, she will be based in London with responsibilities across Ropac’s international galleries, primarily working with artists and estates....
...The tour starts at Notre-Dame’s west front, where booksellers and illuminators began operating in 1200....
...Melanie Richards, vice-chairman of KPMG in the UK, said the report represented a “wake-up call” and that “momentum needs to be rebuilt”....
...BP has strongly defended Dame Ann, noting that she was re-elected to the board by 98 per cent of shareholders....
...She was notorious for playing the grande dame and was routinely an hour late for any social occasion, although Philippe Cottin – Mouton’s longstanding CEO, who died last year – let slip that for board meetings...
...Dame DeAnne Julius, another former committee member said the bank should begin to raise rates at its next inflation report in February....
...Dame Kate Barker, former MPC member Yes, as the public spending plans look very hard to deliver....
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