Comment: Politicians to blame for BBC infighting, BBC: The Br...

To view this email as a webpage, click here     Thursday September 12 2013     Comment   Politicians to blame for BBC infighting   The UK's public broadcaster must do things that private companies would not – it has to be bold or it is pointless       BBC: The British Blameshifting Corp   The MPs have had a try and have got nowhere, so now it's time for the seven past and present execs to face a tougher trial     The west is failing the Syrian people   Why would Bashar al-Assad, stuck in a war he and his clan regard as existential, voluntarily surrender his chemical weapons?     Libya offers no model to end Syria crisis   Contrast between Libyan and Syrian paths on weapons of mass destruction suggests huge gap between west's and Damascus's expectations     Tough tasks and Abe's inflationary quest   As in any proper fantasy tale, the protagonist will have to tackle many adversaries before his deflation-slaying quest is complete     UK hopes it's recovering like it's 1995   The real economy might have turned the corner, as the chancellor contends, but nominal growth remains too slow and too fragile     Intel's new chief faces mobile conundrum   World's biggest chipmaker by sales must learn how to protect a highly profitable PC quasi-monopoly while pushing into new areas     Post-crisis policies promise stagnation   The real solution always required reducing debt, reversing imbalances, decreasing financialisation and modifying behaviours         Opinion   Syria exposes the decline of US diplomacy   In recent decades the impulse in Washington has been to bomb, not engage. But this was not always the case, writes Kishore Mahbubani       The US economy is built on sand   Washington cannot prescribe the balance of the economy, but there is much it could do to place the US recovery on firmer foundations         Manage email    Forward this email   Feedback    Manage portfolio Subscribe to the FT Follow the FT   Unsubscribe | My Account | RSS | Privacy Policy | About Us | Help   © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2013 You have received this email because you have signed up from the NBE preference page. This email was sent by a company owned by Pearson plc, registered office at 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL. Registered in England and Wales with company number 53723.