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...The most powerful argument ever advanced for the continued existence of the BBC is still that of Lord Reith: educate, entertain but above all inform....
...The BBC was guided by a “High Victorian paternalism” embodied by its first director-general, John Reith....
...In last year’s BBC Reith Lectures, computer scientist Stuart Russell made grave warnings about AI weapons and told the Financial Times they pose a “threat to humanity”....
...In his Reith lectures Mark Carney, UN special envoy on climate action and finance, described C&C as the first best option, at the same time adding that it was never going to happen....
...The government’s response to the pandemic “marks a move to a more authoritarian model of politics which will outlast the present crisis”, he warns....
...In his thought-provoking BBC Reith Lectures, Mark Carney, former Bank of England governor, and current adviser to the UK Presidency of COP 26, argues that policymakers and business must overcome the immediate...
...Mark Carney, the former central banker, asks why we esteem financial value over human values in this year’s BBC Reith Lectures. One theme is our slow response to climate change....
...Altos is reportedly backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Yuri Milner, a Russian-born billionaire tech investor and friend of Mark Zuckerberg....
...Meanwhile, in France, the BBC’s founder Lord Reith — who is puzzling over the words “scripted reality” — is charged with sourcing the wine: a Puligny-Montrachet, quite a lot of Louis Roederer and definitely...
...’s beloved cultural rituals: the BBC’s Reith lectures....
...You can forget, when organising a fantasy dinner party, that you want a social event, not five concurrent Reith lectures....
...The advantages of what John Reith, the BBC’s founder, called the “ruthless force of public service broadcasting monopoly” are long gone....
...Nationalists, like religious fundamentalists, insist that there is some essence of nationhood that marks you, like a dye, with national characteristics....
...The public lavatory-style tiling inside the doughnut at the heart of the question-mark has been cleaned....
...The contrast between the arcades, the church of St Mark’s and the tall campanile, all dating from different periods, gives the piazza its unique elegance, he says....
...But then, earlier this year, Mark Wallace got in touch. I knew Mark, who is the executive editor of political website Conservative Home, through Twitter, or at least felt like I did....
...lives of its pioneers: Tim Berners-Lee is cast as a modern John Wycliffe-figure, paving the way for a democratic opening up of the internet; Steve Jobs as an arch-disrupter in the Martin Luther mould; and Mark...
...Such initiatives fit snugly with the worthy injunction of the corporation’s founder, Lord Reith, to inform, educate and entertain....
...Comments by the BBC’s founding director-general John Reith might have reassured them....
...“Tony must be the most powerful DG since Lord Reith,” says an insider, referring to the BBC’s autocratic founder. One of Hall’s first acts was to appoint a tight cadre of senior managers beneath him....
...While the storm blew over, it bred a life-long loathing between Reith and Churchill....
...Art book of 2014, this revised edition marks the 250th birthday of St Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum....
...The notion is perilous, both to the chances of Mark Thompson, Mr Entwistle’s predecessor as director-general, taking up his new role as chief executive of the New York Times as planned next month, and for...
...She will mark the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks in the US by discussing their impact on the world, and their continuing repercussions....
...It had a duty – for Damazer, enlightenment values and devotion to impartiality are an ideology close to a faith – to act on the first commandment of its founder, John Reith....
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