The BBC has tended over the years to be broadly liberal as opposed to broadly conservative for all sorts of perfectly understandable reasons. The sort of people we've recruited - the best and the brightest - tended to come from… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
Think about how much skateboarding opens your eyes to see the world differently. — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
“once computers gain good language understanding and we can speak to them, then reading and writing are going to seem cumbersome’.” — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
“Incidentally, it seems that ‘apartment’ has finally taken over from ‘flat’; I fancy they’ll soon have ‘closets’ rather than wardrobes. Anyway,” — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is worse. It… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
“The more clearly we are able to express ourselves, the less room there is for ambiguity. The more elaborate and the more precise our… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen. — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven. — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
“what the pictures cannot do is express the complexity that might help us understand why these terrible things are happening. Only words can do… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
“We stopped being perfect around the time when Eve picked the apple and started coming on to Adam. That” — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
“Language so remote from the way we speak in the real world prompts the question: what’s behind all that, then? Gushing vacuity addressed” — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
If the semicolon is one of the neglected children in the family of punctuation marks these days, told to stay in its room and… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
“The measure of human success is no longer the life well lived but the lifestyle well lived.” — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
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