Spottiswoode

The five commissioners — Sir John Vickers, Martin Taylor, Clare Spottiswoode, Bill Winters and Martin Wolf — all have reputations for analytical rigor and independent thinking.

This Looks Like a Rather Damp Squib Simon Nixon 2010

As well as Vickers, who is being paid £60,000 for his role, the coalition selected former gas industry regulator Clare Spottiswoode, ex-investment banker Bill Winters, former boss of Barclays Martin Taylor, and Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf.

Banks limber up for battle with the commission 2011

Alongside him on the commission are Clare Spottiswoode, a mathematician and economist who reached the public eye as head of regulator Ofgas in the late 1990s, and Martin Wolf, associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, which he joined in 1987 after a stint at the World Bank.

Britain's battered banks prepare to awake to a new dawn 2011

This was Clanker territory, where the worst beasties were sharks and jellyfish, neither of which could harm her through the Spottiswoode armor.

Behemoth Mr. Scott Westerfeld 2010

It was a Spottiswoode Rebreather, the first underwater apparatus created from fabricated creatures.

Behemoth Mr. Scott Westerfeld 2010

Deryn stole into a maze of off-loaded crates and metal parts, and quickly found a dark spot where she could strip off the Spottiswoode suit.

Behemoth Mr. Scott Westerfeld 2010

I just found out that while working for Eyre and Spottiswoode--- surely my favourite British publisher, just for the name alone--- Graham Greene edited the first novel of a man better known as a fantasy illustrator: Greene scrupulously hammers Mervyn Peake for the facetiousness, prolixity, and overwriting in the original manuscript of Titus Groan.

Archive 2009-04-01 Walter Jon Williams 2009

Claire Spottiswoode has changed my mind, my heart, my bird list, and my world.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

I just found out that while working for Eyre and Spottiswoode--- surely my favourite British publisher, just for the name alone--- Graham Greene edited the first novel of a man better known as a fantasy illustrator: Greene scrupulously hammers Mervyn Peake for the facetiousness, prolixity, and overwriting in the original manuscript of Titus Groan.

Weird Factoid of the Day Walter Jon Williams 2009

As drama rather than history, HBO's adaptation -- directed by Britain's Roger ( "Under Fire") Spottiswoode -- suffers from a defect of its virtues.

Hbo Strikes With The 'Band' 2008