Article: Will it be a rod, a whip or a pair for Sir Thomas, MP?

Article: John Birt - the British Library needs you
The Independent - London;  October 12, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... the eye. "What do you know about John Birt?" he asked. I shrugged. "I ... things. Like who? they said. Like John Birt, I said. "For a moment they didn't click. Then the penny dropped. John Birt has spent the last decade at the ...

Article: Repulsive, but right John Birt's critics are wrong, ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  November 17, 1996 ;     700+ words ..."WE ARE," said John Birt at the Edinburgh Festival in August ... about every large enterprise nowadays. John Birt did not land from the planet Tharg ... closed down, and MPs have questioned John Birt's competence. Everyone accuses the ...

Article: The battles of John Birt; How the boy from Bootle ...
The Evening Standard (London, England);  October 21, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... HARDER PATH: The Autobiography of John Birt (Time Warner, pound sterling20) (Time Warner, pound sterling20) JOHN Birt's mum has a lot to answer for ... come. In loving, vivid detail, John Birt paints pictures of parents and grandparents ...

Article: The things they say about John Birt . . .
The Independent - London;  March 4, 1994 ;     449 words ... ... who resigned from the BBC shortly after John Birt arrived as deputy director general in ... Edinburgh Television Conference, 1992: "John Birt and Marmaduke Hussey had implemented ... Academy in 1993, three months after John Birt's tax avoidance plans are revealed ...

Article: Platform 6: John Tusa appears to believe that he, not John ...
The Independent - London;  June 23, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... without qualification, that he, not John Birt, should be running the BBC. It is here ... vengeance, having fallen out very soon after John Birt was recruited from London Weekend Television ... every chance that history will judge John Birt's stewardship of the BBC very harshly ...

Article: Life after Birt John Birt has dragooned, bullied ...
Evening Standard - London;  March 17, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... being a runner in the stakes to succeed John Birt as director-general of the BBC? Once ... Barnett, knew the man they wanted. John Birt was appointed without contest or challenge ... description describes the full reality of John Birt, or does it rather indicate the kind ...

Article: Media: Come back, John Birt - we need current ...
The Independent - London;  November 5, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... to the new deputy director general, John Birt, outlining his plans for their department ... watching Nick Fraser's witty profile of John Birt (shown on BBC 4 and BBC 2), transmitted ... leading a charge towards triviality, John Birt's successor, Greg Dyke, appreciates ...