British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Trust in Public Life (10 November 2008)
In her 2002 Reith Lecture series, Onora O'Neill criticised the approaches to trust and loss of trust that dominate public debate. Six years on, in her final year as President of the British Academy, she considers why many supposed remedies for mistrust have failed, and whether more intelligible approaches to accountability are needed.
Widening the discussion with a particular focus on the role trust plays in the media and in Government are BBC Director-General Mark Thompson, who has faced an unprecedented crisis of public trust in the corporation, and Lord Wilson of Dinton, Cabinet Secretary in the early years of the Blair Government. The distinguished former journalist Peter Hennessy FBA, now Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, London, introduces the panellists and gives the audience an opportunity to debate the issues raised.
NOTES TO EDITORS
Published:
05 October 2008
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