Effective

 BBC Board Minutes are a staple of this blog - but I've failed to spot a change that reduces my supply of fodder. 

Back in March last year, the Board voted to slash its regular meetings from 11 a year to six. I'm now advised that it sits in January, March, April, June, October, and December.  There's also to be one 'awayday' a year. Two of the six meetings must be held 'outside London'  and some of them should be 'non-executive only meetings'. 

So the mass-resignation meeting of October will have had its minutes signed off in December, and the Board allows itself two months to shape them for publication. So they're due this month. 

"Doing less for more" could be a W1A principle. The reduction in meetings, not obviously accompanied by a reduction in non-executive pay, resulted from a "Board Effectiveness Review" by Christopher Saul, formerly top dog at Slaughter & May, brought into the BBC by Lord Hall of Birkenhead. 

Saul, 69 (Tiffin School and St Catherine's College Oxford) is a fan of Clean Bandit, Crosby Stills and Nash, Vampire Weekend, holidays and cars.