P D James socks it to the BBC Director General - The Iconoclast

P D James socks it to the BBC Director General: "Baroness James of Holland Park, better known as P D James is a famous crime writer. At eighty-nine, she has a razor-sharp mind, which the BBC's Director General Mark Thompson seriously underestimated in this now notorious interview. You can read it in full here; YouTube has only the second part:




Charles Moore contrasts Baroness James's clear, eloquent speech with Mark Thompson's blustering jargon. By their words shall ye know them. From The Spectator:
Like millions of listeners to the Today programme on New Year’s Eve, I rejoiced at P.D. James’s inquisition — the more deadly for its courtesy — of the BBC Director-General, Mark Thompson. Mr Thompson is not a bad or stupid man, but his very locutions were typical of the modern bureaucrat. Where Lady James respectfully called him ‘Director-General’, he tried to ingratiate himself by calling her ‘Phyllis’. Where she used metaphor exactly — a well-extended i..."