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...There has been speculation that Singapore paid a grant to promoter Anschutz Entertainment Group to secure the star.5....
...Yet I cannot recall a termination of government-backed grants on this scale and with so little warning, lack of guidance or apparent interest in the outcomes....
...Chris Patten, then chairman, fondly remembers Mr Davie’s steely manner with “hotshot presenters”. “Some at the BBC curled their lip at Tim’s commercial background,” he says....
...Chris Patten, the former head of the BBC Trust, described Mr Davie as a “terrific choice” who had shown he could be “tough and judicious” during his five-month stint as acting director-general....
...Even under a household levy system, the BBC would never expect the government to grant German-style largesse....
...Lord Patten believes the party is heading for existential “mayhem” at the hands of Eurosceptics....
...The significance of this is clear to all in the territory: a major ally and business partner has so much doubt in the integrity of Hong Kong’s human rights safeguards that they are willing to grant these...
...Lord Patten said: “I think it would be crazy. I don’t see how an election campaign would increase the Conservative majority, which would be the only point of it....
...Though the Umbrella Revolution of 2014 (sparked by Beijing’s refusal to grant open elections and universal suffrage) attracted similar numbers, none of its demands were met....
...In July 1997, as the Union Flag was lowered over Hong Kong for the last time, Chris Patten, the outgoing governor, declared that the people of the former colony would now run the territory themselves....
...Earlier this month, Lord Patten, chair of the governing BBC Trust, told MPs on the Culture, Media and Sport select committee the NAO would be given increased powers to investigate problems....
...Similarly, Lord Patten said on Thursday the BBC was “both over- and under-managed”....
...By promoting the inexhaustible Grant Shapps to the role, Mr Cameron is acknowledging that this must change....
...Lord Patten is chancellor of Oxford University and chairman of the BBC Trust...
...Lord Patten is chancellor of the University of Oxford and a former governor of Hong Kong...
...Lizzy sorted out how many colour pages I’d need for photos, including one of Ronay dining with Cary Grant in the 1950s. I also wanted to reproduce some menus of the meals we had eaten together....
...Sir Anthony Bamford – JCB Malcolm Brinded – Royal Dutch Shell Richard Lambert – CBI Chris Patten – Chancellor University Oxford Alan Parker – Brunswick David Brewer – Former LM of London/Chair China British...
...Both Prodi and José Manuel Barroso, his successor as president of the European Commission, say EU governments bear much of the blame for the failure to crack down on Greece because they refused to grant...
...“Back then, I don’t know if you could even count on an accurate Greek statistic about the number of kilometres from Marathon to Athens,” recalls Lord Patten, the UK Conservative who served as Mr Prodi’s...
...Apart from Bennett, there are Brian Patten, Roger McGough, Maggie O’Farrell and Esther Freud on the home team, while visitors from overseas include Michael Ondaatje and Caryl Phillips....
...Charles Grant, director of the London-based Centre for European Reform, insists that British influence has gone much further than economic policy....
...It is not in anyone’s interests that local associations should be dependent upon grants from the centre rather than financially independent organisations....
...Of course, it would lose its block teaching funds and at least some of the £65m-plus in government research grants, around 28 per cent of its research income....
...Former Austrian foreign minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner is trying to make her mark in Chris Patten's old job as external relations commissioner....
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