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Guardian: in America, not in American
Launches today. It is in America, but not in American. Which to me is a missed opportunity, given my previous solo campaign (actually blog post) to adopt American English as the online standard. Although English (US) has its uglinesses, the Americans care far more about English than we do, as Inigo Thomas admits in his…
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Democracy might have saved the BBC
Now the BBC is in trouble and there is no one to come to its aid. In the final irony, its own rules on impartiality forbid it from campaigning against its own evisceration.Two years ago I hosted a lunch for Michael Grade where he explained his plans for revising BBC governance. After he talked amusingly…