General Sir Richard Shirreff KCB, CBE is a senior British Army officer. From March 2011 to March 2014, he served as NATO’s Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe. Educated at Oxford University, Shirreff rose quickly through the ranks of the British Army during the course of his 37-year career as an international leader and commander. He is a speaker, consultant, and advisor on issues of international politics and military strategy.
Michael Crick (born 21 May 1958) is an English journalist, author and broadcaster.
Born in Northampton, he was educated at Manchester Grammar School and New College, Oxford, where he got a first class degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE). At Oxford he was editor of one of the student newspapers, Cherwell, founded the Oxford Handbook and the Oxbridge Careers Handbook, and was president of the Oxford Union.
He specialises in politics, and appeared as a regular reporter on BBC Two's Newsnight. In March 2007, he was appointed the programme's political editor.
In 2003, under heavy pressure from the preparation of the Hutton Report, it refused to show Crick's report for Newsnight into 'Betsygate', the alleged misuse of public funds b
