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BBC Charter big guns
The Guardian confirms that the BBC has responded quickly and seriously to Tessa Jowell’s announcement that Charter renewal won’t be a cake walk. They’ve rolled out two top executives to lead the defense of the licence fee.
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Barry Cox on the future of the BBC
Barry Cox’s second Oxford University lecture on the future of television, reprinted in
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Bridge fanatic
Another beautiful day in Soho. To Blacks in Dean Street for lunch with John Wilmott. John founded – with his brother Eamonn – Internet Publishing which became Online Magic and, after the business’ acquisition by ad giant Omnicom, Agency.com. John is a thoughtful bridge fanatic. He’s working on a new project.
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Got little kids?
Throwing out the self-promotional boom a bit further today – to take in my wife Juliet’s latest column at Tigerchild. Juliet’s been writing her funny and frank weekly accounts of life in the parenting trenches (Planet Parent) for about a year now but I reckon her latest is one of the funniest. You can usually…
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The manned space programme and human vanity
Those who doubt that we should continue sending people into space have a point – but only in the short term. As soon as you stretch the time scale out beyond, say, fifty years it becomes clear: freezing the manned space programme now would be an enormous vanity, a betrayal of future generations on a…
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The new Greg Dyke, more like…
Jana Bennet, the BBC’s new Director of Television, comes out fighting in Media Guardian.
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By the way…
Postman’s Park in the City is a reminder of London’s continuing power to surprise. A 50ft long ceramic tile memorial in a quiet park buried amongst the commercial buildings – established in Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee year 1887 – to ordinary people who gave their lives to save others. That London had (and still has)…