As part of a week-long series focused on Mapping China’s Ambitions, The Cipher Brief is partnering with Harvard Research Fellow and former British diplomat Jamie Burnham to explore China’s threat vectors, how it is organizing to win, what a government ecosystem looks like and the impact that international collaboration will have in the future. Yesterday in … Continue reading "Mapping China by the Numbers: Organizing to Win"
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Robbie Gibb’s appointment shows how No 10 wants to politicise the BBC Some of the broadcaster’s staff are troubled by the appointment of an ideological Brexiteer to a supposedly neutral body. Boris Johnson’s government has appointed a known partisan to the BBC board, in an overt bid to politicise a governance body supposed to be free from political influence. Robbie Gibb, a former aide to two Tory politicians – he served as Theresa May’s director of communications in No 10, and as chief of staff to former Tory shadow chancellor Francis Maude in the 1990s – has been made the board’s member of England. The role was previously filled by Ashley Steel, the former global head of transport for KPMG, whose political anonymity was typical for those on the BBC board. Gibb, by contrast, is a political appointee filling what has historically been an apolitical role.
Robbie Gibb previously worked for the BBC and in Theresa May s Downing Street AN avowed Brexiteer with close ties to the Conservatives has been appointed to the BBC’s board. Robbie Gibb, who previously worked as Theresa May’s communications director in Downing Street and has claimed the BBC has been “captured by the woke”, will sit on the corporation’s board as its “England Nation Member”. The BBC’s media editor Amol Rajan said the “appointment clearly strengthens the BBC s links not just with Westminster, but with the Conservative Party specifically”. Robbie Gibb’s brother Nick is the Tory MP for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton and a minister in Boris Johnson’s government, having previously been in both David Cameron and Theresa May’s.