He confronted one trustee who was defending the changes, Sir Christopher Frayling, face to face on the BBC's Newsnight and repeatedly referred to him impishly as "Professor Failing", perhaps slightly diminishing the seriousness of his argument.
As part of the changes, Sir Jonathan Ive, who runs the team designing Apple's hardware, will also oversee the user experience on its software.
In other changes: Sir George Young, 71, a close ally of Clarke's on the "one nation" wing of the Tory party, is to lose his post as leader of the House of Commons.
The new rule made losses show up more prominently on the books, a change Sir David said he thought was necessary to protect investors.
The changes come as Sir Michael Wilshaw, the head of Ofsted, prepares to unveil the inspectorate's own changes to the way it assesses schools in England, through shorter but more frequent visits.
Lord Ashdown said that while other parties were scrambling to claim the liberal agenda on issues such as climate change, Sir Menzies had clearly shown that the Lib Dems were the "real thing".
7. Listen and broker options, while defining your own agenda Sir David King chose climate change, Sir John Beddington the 'perfect storm'; sooner rather than later, Walport is likely to want a policy agenda that he can call his own.
Or flout the Kyoto obligations they solemnly undertook and admit to voters that they were not really serious about curbing greenhouse gases.In a recent British report on climate change, Sir Nicholas Stern said the European emission-trading scheme could become "the nucleus of future global carbon markets".
Is he listening to the government's own envoy on climate change, Sir David King?," she asked.
"The subsistence level is only a conventional idea, and conventions change," Sir Arthur pointed out.
Ka-ching — your change, sir. There's a phrase in journalism-speak called "burying the lede," which Leibovich appears to do by waiting until Page 330 to cite this arresting figure (previously reported by The Atlantic): in 1974, 3 percent of retiring members of Congress became lobbyists.
