Andreas Whittam Smith
Andreas Whittam Smith was a financial journalist until 1985 when he led the team that founded The Independent. The paper’s first editor (1986-1994), he has subsequently been the president of the British Board of Film Classification (1998-2002) and chairman of the Financial Ombudsman Service (1998-2003). He is currently First Church Estates Commissioner responsible for £5bn of the Church's investments, and chairman of the Children's Mutual.
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Is there bullying in your workplace? Here's why
30 July 2013 05:16 PM
When superiors fire off insults, it is a symptom of instability within the organisation
Will nobody confront the hackers and blaggers in pin-striped suits?
26 July 2013 06:05 PM
The two explanations put forward by Soca for its inaction have the marks of having been thought up at the last minute
The Keogh report leaves us asking - what is Government for?
16 July 2013 07:16 PM
The cost of various Health Secretaries’ interventions has been heavy
Women bishops at last? Law debated by Church of England Synod
08 July 2013 04:52 PM
Members of the General Synod agree to begin next stage on proposals
George Osborne's latest flop over 'shares for rights' is typical of modern government
02 July 2013 05:22 PM
Since it became law the Department for Business has received only four inquiries, but this measure's history says a lot about the replacement of ideology with marketing
Don’t mourn the universities that go bust
25 June 2013 05:18 PM
The new commercial battleground that is the student “experience” will undoubtedly lead to a radical restructuring of higher education - and maybe that's no bad thing
If Google is in the dock about child sex abuse, then so are judges
18 June 2013 04:04 PM
There can be no one solution to the problem society has with sexual violence
The war to end all wars? It lasted 75 years
14 June 2013 06:45 PM
The Austro-Hungarian empire was a sort of central European union
How the French lost their je ne sais quoi
05 June 2013 06:03 PM
They see globalisation as a process that destroys individual cultures and identities
Who’s the odd one out in Europe? Not us
16 May 2013 12:00 AM
France has left Germany's side and the public mood is heading South
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- 2 Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
- 3 US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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