Lord Burns Becomes New Channel 4 Chairman
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Lord Burns, a former chief economic adviser and permanent secretary to the Treasury, has been appointed as the next chairman of Channel 4.
The Future Role of the European Court of Justice: 6th Report with Evidence (House of Lords Papers)
Sky News (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Lord Burns, a former chief economic adviser and permanent secretary to the Treasury, has been appointed as the next chairman of Channel 4.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Lord Burns, a former chief economic adviser, will succeed Luke Johnson as the next chairman of Channel 4.
Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
Finally by digby The House of Lords finally decided to give the rubes a break. They passed the unemployment extension. Huzzah. That 700,000 people who lost their benefits at the end of September and all those since, sure could use a check about now. .
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Ofcom confirms that Lord Terry Burns will replace Luke Johnson as the new chairman of Channel 4.
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Six places to be reserved for serving members of the armed forces during prime minister's questions or any other parliamentary debate Serving members of the armed forces will be given priority when the Commons allocates places in the public gallery for prime minister's questions, John Bercow said today. The Speaker told MPs that up to six places in the public gallery would be reserved for armed forces...
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Buy Buddhism, sell Anglicanism? Be careful, because, just as in financial markets, shocks and bubbles can test your faith Faith markets are perhaps like financial markets. After all, religions have become global: opinions and beliefs are traded every day in the world's cosmopolitan cities, much like stocks and shares. Faith markets might even have their own kind of securities, as people hedge against...
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• People accused of being too selfish to be parents • Sacks says non-believers lack family values Europe is "dying" because its citizens are too selfish to have children, the chief rabbi has said, blaming a dwindling birthrate on a culture of "consumerism and instant gratification". Sir Jonathan Sacks accused people of caring more about shopping than spirituality and...
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`The Christian Institute’ The House of Lords last night rejected a final attempt to weaken the Government’s proposed new law to tackle sex trafficking. The Government wants to criminalise anyone paying for sex with a prostitute who is being exploited by someone else, whether or not he knows about her situation. It hopes the proposal, Clause 14 of [...]
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Despite all the £ millions spent running the Parliamentary estate, and the £235 million thrown on Portcullis House, today there are 3,500 square meters of empty office space. All prime real estate at the heart of our capital city. Why is it that Parliament is as bad at managing office space as it has been at running its expense system? Because in a world of “safe seats” and...
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SWEDEN: Anglicans snub Swedish lesbian bishop http://www.thelocal.se/23074/20091104/ November 4, 2009 Anglican bishops from England and Northern Ireland have rebuffed invitations to attend the ordination of the openly gay Eva Brunne to be the next Bishop of Stockholm. Five bishops from various levels within the Anglican Church, including Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, have decided not to...
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There is a byelection going on in the Glasgow North East Constituency which used to be occupied by Michael Martin, the thoroughly discredited former Speaker of the House of Commons ( and what the hell is Martin doing in the House of Lords? ), and the SNP Candidate David Kerr is making heavy weather of it. Traditionally candidates bend over backwards, forwards and sideways to appear local, but Mr Kerr...
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Nicola Brittain, Computing , Thursday 5 November 2009 at 11:00:00 Cyber security exercise next week will examine response if communications disappear In the first exercise of its kind in the UK, the government will simulate a "total collapse" of the national phone network next week, as part of the National Strategy for Cyber Security launched by Gordon Brown in June. The move was announced...
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By George Conger, Religious Intelligence The Dioceses of Western Louisiana and South Carolina have endorsed the Ridley-Cambridge draft of the Anglican Covenant, joining Central Florida as the third American diocese to formally back the Archbishop of Canterbury’s plan for creating a structure to manage the divisions over doctrine and discipline dividing the Anglican Communion. On Oct [...]
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Trust urged to improve standards at existing 17 schools and two due to open in 2010 The government has banned the largest sponsor of academies from taking on new schools until it dramatically improve the ones it already runs, the Guardian has learned. The United Learning Trust (ULT) was called into the office of the schools secretary, Ed Balls, last week and told it could not sponsor any more schools...
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IWR News Desk, Information World Review , Thursday 5 November 2009 at 13:00:00 The department for business innovation and skills (BIS) has organised a debate on the future of UK science - Blue skies ahead? The prospects for UK science – in association with the Wellcome Trust and Times Higher Education The discussion, to be held on November 30, follows the report from BIS in October that UK science...
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news rage uk | 18/04/2008
Lord Desai came out today and said what we are all probably thinking about unelected PM Gordon Brown. That he is indecisive and weak. However he got the next bit wrong because he claimed that Gordon was put on earth to remind us how good Blair was and this is where I started to get angry. I want to make it perfectly clear from here that I think and have always thought that the whole New Labour exercise...