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Sep 23, 2024 · Allegedly he said he would only go if the director-general himself, his friend John Birt, personally asked him. Peter’s reporting of economics on TV became a source of frustration and bickering...
Sep 10, 2024 · Anglican bishops sitting in the Lords are a “feudal legacy” that should be ousted along with hereditary peers, a former director-general of the BBC has said. Independent crossbench peer Lord Birt branded the automatic right for 26 Lords Spiritual to sit on the red benches an “indefensible undemocratic anomaly”.
Sep 10, 2024 · Lord Birt branded the automatic right for 26 Anglican bishops to sit on the red benches an ‘indefensible undemocratic anomaly’.
Sep 22, 2024 · Peter Jay, who died 22 September, 2024, aged 87, was an economist, diplomat and broadcaster. He was sometime British ambassador to the United States, and son-in-law of the prime minister James Callaghan. He was born 7 February, 1937, son of Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, the Baron Jay, PC (1907-1996), the Labour Party politician, and his wife the ...
3 days ago · George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen: 1999: John Birt, Baron Birt: 2000: Charles Powell, Baron Powell of Bayswater: 2000 Lindsay Northover, Baroness Northover: 2000 Matthew Oakeshott, Baron Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: 2000 Angela Billingham, Baroness Billingham: 2000 Daniel Brennan, Baron Brennan: 2000: Janet Neel Cohen, Baroness ...
5 days ago · In 1987, John Birt resurrected the practice of correspondents working for both TV and radio with the introduction of bi-media journalism. [51]
Sep 11, 2024 · In yesterday's debate on the bill, crossbench peer John Birt described reserved seats for Anglican bishops as a "feudal legacy" embedded "centuries before the notion of democracy gathered pace." The bishops' bench must be recognised as an "indefensible, undemocratic anomaly", he said.
