Andreas Whittam Smith

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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Andreas Whittam Smith: Wholesale privatisation is not what people voted for

Lib Dem ministers haven’t any moral authority whatever to agree to measures that change the relationship between the citizen and the state.

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Andreas Whittam Smith: Protests that can't just be dismissed as 'student politics'

Thursday, 24 February 2011

Social media make possible a grassroots democracy that has never been available before. Its power is very great

Andreas Whittam Smith: Cameron's charity bank is all part of rebranding the Tories

Thursday, 17 February 2011

Suppose the naughty, unremorseful bankers could be persuaded to participate in the charitable enterprise. That would make the Government look good

Andreas Whittam Smith: We need closure, not compromise over banks

Thursday, 10 February 2011

Their speculative, wild binge cost us £140bn in a single year. So it is not yet time to forgive and forget such reckless behaviour

Andreas Whittam Smith: Social networks are now the tyrant's weapon of choice, too

Thursday, 3 February 2011

Crowd-sourcing is meant to be one of the internet's neatest ideas. But it can also be used by authoritarians, for the purpose of censorship

Andreas Whittam Smith: Cameron is guilty of moral blindness

Tuesday, 25 January 2011

How far does the writ run of appeasing News International? If it runs at all, we can confidently say that it starts from No. 10

Andreas Whittam Smith: Protest movements don't need a spearhead to be successful

Thursday, 20 January 2011

Just like the Tea Party, those on the streets of Tunis must ask: can we remain as a protest group of watchful citizens, or must we mutate from protest into power?

Andreas Whittam Smith: Arrogant, patronising and rude. Remind you of anyone?

Thursday, 13 January 2011

The French get off to an excellent start so far as manners is concerned with their use of 'Monsieur' and 'Madame' when addressing people they don't know well

Andreas Whittam Smith: Anonymity in the information age is power

Thursday, 16 December 2010

If the group of computer hackers who call themselves Anonymous have a system at all, it could be called 'organised chaos'

Andreas Whittam Smith: GPs will have to sprout angel wings to handle this madness

Thursday, 9 December 2010

So the path to enhanced localism goes via the Kremlin. It is a weird way to go.

Andreas Whittam Smith: A nearby country of which we know shamefully little

Thursday, 2 December 2010

The repeated feeling of victimhood, which surfaced during the Thirty Years' War, is useful in assessing Germany's attitude to the euro crisis

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