, “a joint initiative from LSE and the London College of Communication aimed at working journalists, people in public life and students in the UK and around the world”, invites everyone to a public debate tomorrow evening:
Is the Public Service Ethos Doomed?
Thursday November 8th, 2007, 6.30-8pm
New Theatre, East Building,
London School of Economics,
Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE
The speakers will be Emily Bell of The Guardian, Evan Davies, the BBC’s Economics Editor, and Richard D. North, author of Scrap the BBC!* The debate will be chaired by Elinor Goodman, former political editor of Channel 4 News.
More details are available on the event page. See also: travel information, maps & directions and finding your way around LSE.
* Available in hardback direct from the publishers, The Social Affairs Unit, for a bargain £4.00 plus £2.75 postage via Amazon Marketplace (look for seller omm-sau).
So is anyone from around here, Beeboid or non-Beeboid, planning to go to this?
Well I won’t be attending, but if anyone here does go can they ask Evan Davies why he once described Gordon Brown’s £5 billion per year tax raid on private pension schemes as “a good thing because it will encourage people to save more for their old age”. Is this still his opinion? And what sort of pension arrangements does he have? Final salary BBC scheme, guaranteed by the taxpayer presumably?
Good luck to RDN. It’s a bit far for me to go for an hour and a half.
But shouldn’t that organization be arrested for impersonating a polis?
Robin Aitken was speaking on impartiality at to some students on Friday, according to Adrian Monck.