Talk:John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley

message: I see that 'He is a short man' has just been added. He is undoubtedly a short man, but I wonder whether his height needs to be included. roundhouse 07:51, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've searched, but can't find his height given anywhere. While this might seem to be trivia, in a profile on him on BBC radio, they mentioned that he was a small, impeccably-dressed man. I hadn't realised he was below average height before I saw the reports on his resignation. I think his height would be a valid piece of information to include, if we can find it. JRawle (Talk) 13:43, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Height

message: What is the position the last paragraph states he will be abandoning? Philbradley 22:01, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Clarification

message: A lot of the information in this article seems to relate to BP's activities rather than Browne himself.  Of course there is a degree of overlap, but I think there's a little too much here...  128.62.90.140 19:11, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: BP or Browne?

message: Removed category LGBT:Directors, which is for film and theatre directors (not corporate directors). Myc2001 16:40, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: LGBT:Directors

message: added the comment that Browne "has not apparently attended any debates in the House [of Lords]". This is incorrect as TheyWorkForYou.com shows him speaking on at least three occasions  (admittedly not since 2005), and that doesn't mean he didn't attend debates on other occasions without speaking. Therefore I've removed this statement. A differently-worded sentence about his attending infrequently might be in order, although it should be backed up with attendance figures, if someone can find them. JRawle (Talk) 22:09, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  House of Lords 

message: In the text we read: "It is possible that Browne will face charges of perjury for lying to the court over how he met Chevalier." Could anybody tell us what is wrong about not telling the court that his lover was a callboy? What was he accused for? Where is the missing link between his private love affair aund the court? I mean, if my wife asks me whether I have a lover I will surely not admit it. And if I am asked in court in a totally unrelated case whether I have a lover and if so how I met him, I would advise the judge to read books with sexual content if he is interested in this kind of topic and not to specualte about my private life. The fact that I like Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte is my own business, too... 84.75.210.113 00:28, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the reply. I still do not understand the thing about the lie. Let's take an easy example: If MOS writes that I like to spend me week-end with watching TV and I say the is not true in a written deposition (but it is true that I spend me weekens by watching TV), can anybody sue me for this according to british law? 84.75.210.113 11:58, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:   Basically the MoS was going to report that Browne met Chevalier on Suited and Booted. Browne had always said they met while jogging in the park. Browne repeated that lie in an effort to discredit the MoS article in an effort to prevent it from being published. In other words, he claimed the MoS was lying about him and therefore the article was libellous. That could be perjury, because what the MoS said was in fact true, by Browne's own later admission. Browne isn't being sued. It is possible he could be charged with perjury. The outcome of the original case was that the MoS was allowed to publish its article. Quakerman 10:29, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Legal questions

message: This article states that John Browne received an honorary Doctor of Engineering, but does not say he has an earned engineering degree.  Does anybody know if he has an earned engineering degree ?  H Padleckas (talk) 06:23, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The article says (I think correctly) that his first degree was in Physics. It seems to me likely that he never made an undergraduate study in Engineering. Physics or Chemistry was quite enough to succeed at BP in those days. Thincat (talk) 19:56, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Engineering degree 

message: Browne is described by journalist and author Tom Bower as irresponsible for a "ruthless" programme of cost-cutting at BP that compromised safety, and thus the man most responsible for a string of major accidents including the Texas City Refinery explosion (2005) and the Deepwater Horizon explosion (2010).
Complete and utter garbage. I worked for BP between 1999 and 2004 when Browne was Chief Executive.  Rather than cutting back on safety, BP actually increased the spend on safety during this period - in fact, I would say that virtually everyone at BP at the time said that the amount of risk reduction and the safety culture was, if anything, too extreme, rather than being insufficient.  Texas City and Deepwater Horizon were both symptoms of BP USA's safety culture; it continued to see itself as Amoco, and never took the safety culture of BP seriously.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.210.152.67 (talk) 01:22, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Safety Record 

message: I work for Browne now, and wanted to raise once again the point made in this Wikipedia entry about Tom Bower's claims and Browne's safety record. In the interests of fairness and balance, would it be fair to add a line saying that "the Baker Panel report found evidence to link cost cutting to safety risks or accidents". That was the conclusion of the Baker Reporthttp://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/SP/STAGING/local_assets/assets/pdfs/Baker_panel_report.pdf ("During the course of its review, the Panel did not develop or identify sufficient information to conclude whether BP ever intentionally withheld resources on any safety-related assets or projects for budgetary or cost reasons”). That evidence directly contradicts the claim made in the preceding sentence, and would seem to be a fair addition to this entry. 217.156.180.66 (talk) 16:11, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Safety Record 

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