One might hope that we have since then learned a few things about the value of impartiality.
I only wish the BBC valued your impartiality, loyalty and diligence as highly as you do.
"We felt, 'Shouldn't we have a vision?' We felt a need to revisit essential core values of impartiality, objectivity".
It is the BBC that is expected to uphold perceived national values like impartiality, honesty, compassion and, oddly perhaps, both irreverence and respect for tradition.
Less recognized was the Bush administration's larding the top ranks of the department with "loyal Bushies" like Ms. Paulose, who undermined the values of impartiality that the Justice Department is supposed to uphold.
But instead of deciding openly to adopt the American system, Mr Blair has tried to superimpose elements of it on top of a civil-service machine that is still striving manfully to carry on in the time-honoured way, adhering to rules that embody the time-honoured values of impartiality.
In their article, which appeared in the Daily Telegraph, the two men wrote that in contrast to her public persona Lady Thatcher was a keen supporter of the civil service's "values of impartiality and integrity" "Contrary to what many have suggested," they said, "Mrs Thatcher never sought to staff No 10 with 'Yes men' or civil servants who shared her politics.
For Arendt, therefore, the danger of trying to recapture the sense of intimacy and warmth, of authenticity and communal feelings is that one loses the public values of impartiality, civic friendship, and solidarity.
For instance, Kantian constructivism appears to be grounded on the value of moral impartiality, that is, the demand of equal respect for persons (Scanlon 1998, 22 33; cf. 287 290; Rawls 1993, 38 54).
The values of political impartiality, advancement on merit and the public service ethos should be as cherished and nurtured today as ever.
