The Review of Nearly Everything

Entertained to learn that new BBC Chairman Richard Sharp disapproves of 'marking your own homework' when it comes the investigation of cock-ups, yet is asking "The Executive" to review the hiring of Martin Bashir in 2016 and the decision to allow him to resign on health grounds in 2021. 

The review of nearly everything journalistic will be "undertaken by a group of non-executive Board Directors led by Sir Nick Serota, the BBC’s Senior Independent Director, and supported by Ian Hargreaves and Sir Robbie Gibb, non-executive members of the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee."

Lord Hall 'tapped' Nick Serota to work with the BBC as a sounding board on arts coverage in 2014, and, announced his arrival as a 'non-executive' in 2016.  

Ian Hargreaves was, successively, Managing Editor, Controller, then Director of News & Current Affairs at the BBC from 1987 to 1991. "I joined the BBC after 11 years at the Financial Times, with a mission to raise the quality of BBC journalism across all media."  Lord Hall, as Tony Hall, was made Editor of News and Current Affairs in 1987, and succeeded Ian Hargreaves in 1990.  Mr Hargreaves joined in the new BBC unitary Board, under Sir David Clementi, in 2017, alongside Tony Hall and Sir Nick Serota, moving seamlessly across from the previous governance structure. 

Sir Robbie Gibb, as plain Robbie first joined the BBC in 1994, in the Political Research Unit, where, during 1995, he found time to help Michael Gove with his prescient book, Michael Portillo: The Future of the Right. He then became a producer on the Birtian tv construct, On the Record, from 1995, appointed by David Jordan, the BBC's current Director of Editorial Policy and Standards.