Hints and tips:
...UK ministers have picked veteran television executive Samir Shah as BBC chair to replace Richard Sharp, the former Goldman Sachs banker who resigned earlier this year....
...Ministers have been searching for a new chair since the resignation of Richard Sharp in April....
...For Thomas, this blizzard of reform proposals masks problems that blight pupils in the middle....
...BBC directors have raised concerns that chair Richard Sharp’s position is becoming untenable after they were briefed on the investigation into his appointment, adding to pressure for his resignation as early...
...A guarantee for Johnson’s loan was provided by Sam Blyth, a Canadian businessman and distant cousin of Johnson....
...And waiting in the wings is its next populist presenter, Boris Johnson, who is due to start a new show ahead of the election and is still loved by many Tory activists....
...Interviews with Reform party leader Richard Tice and chancellor Jeremy Hunt — conducted by two Conservative MPs — have recently been found to have breached the rules....
...Sharp, who had been backed by former prime minister Boris Johnson....
...The salary of the next BBC chair has been frozen at £160,000 even as the government seeks to attract a wider pool of candidates after a controversy over the appointment of former board chief Richard Sharp...
...Richard Sharp has been forced to resign as BBC chair after an investigation found that he breached the rules after failing to declare a role in the loan guarantee made to Boris Johnson before his appointment...
...The government has begun the search for a new BBC chair after appointing headhunters Saxton Bampfylde to oversee the job of replacing former board head Richard Sharp who resigned over a “potential perceived...
...In a statement, the board added: “Richard has been a real advocate for the BBC, its mission, and why the corporation is a priceless asset for the country, at home and abroad.”...
...“Richard Rogers is no longer around, who’s going to do it?” This is bound to annoy people; Heatherwick always does....
...The new acting chair of the BBC has said the board needs to stand behind its creative output as the broadcaster re-establishes “the confidence and the ambition” after the departure of previous chair Richard...
...The BBC has found that Richard Sharp breached its code of practice by failing to disclose discussions relating to a “possible loan by a third party” to then prime minister Boris Johnson ahead of his appointment...
...The narrative identification strategy uses historical information on President Richard Nixon’s pressure on Fed Chairman Arthur Burns in the run-up to the 1972 presidential election....
...Humphrey was nominated during a riot-stricken convention in Chicago, and then lost to Richard Nixon in the general election....
...of Johnson....
...Richard Sharp was adamant he had done little wrong, insisting that an investigation into the circumstances of his appointment as BBC chair proved any breach of relevant rules was “inadvertent and not material...
...Ministers will next week seek to avoid controversy by appointing a leading figure in the Welsh arts as acting chair of the BBC, following the departure of Richard Sharp....
...Even in the 1990s, British Gas faced “fat cat” protests under US-born chair Richard Giordano, while EMI struggled to defend how much it paid another US executive “Lucky Jim” Fifield....
...Interim BBC chair Dame Elan Closs Stephens, who took over after Richard Sharp stood down last month over a scandal involving a loan to former prime minister Boris Johnson, said on Tuesday the board was satisfied...
...He cited ex-culture secretary Nadine Dorries interviewing former prime minister Boris Johnson on TalkTV, which is owned by media tycoon Rupert Murdoch....
...The decision he and Richard Nixon took to back Pakistan’s brutal suppression of the uprising in what became Bangladesh is high up on any charge sheet against him....
...Last year, Trump was able to install Mike Johnson, a relatively obscure lawmaker from Louisiana but one of his allies, to be Speaker of the House....
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