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Posts Tagged: DCMS Select Committee

Darren Grimes: In defence of Cummings

It has become increasingly clear that all this is less about what he did and entirely about who he is.

By Darren Grimes | 25 May 2020 | 276 comments

Damian Collins: Social media. We should act now to make the big tech companies more responsible.

A small community radio station with a few thousand listeners requires a license, but a social media channel with millions of individual subscribers does not.

By Damian Collins MP | 9 March 2020 | 52 comments

Full membership list of select committees

The Exiting the European Union Committee has been renamed. The Conservative MPs elected to it are staunch Brexiteers.

By Harry Phibbs | 5 March 2020 | 57 comments

Whacking the BBC. Change is coming – whether the Corporation likes it or not.

This site is opposed to subscription funding and a decriminalised licence fee. But both will be forced on the BBC if it doesn’t reform.

By Paul Goodman | 17 February 2020 | 243 comments

Three takeaways from yesterday’s select committee chairmanship elections

These bodies will play an important role in holding this majority Government to account. What will Downing Street make of the results?

By Henry Hill | 30 January 2020 | 6 comments

Julian Knight: The Culture Select Committee should act as its own Royal Commission on the BBC’s future

The next few months should see the start of a proper, root-and-branch review of the Corporation to help it find a new model and a new role.

By Julian Knight MP | 20 January 2020 | 106 comments

Dan Boucher: How to control Facebook’s use of our data

Social media providers should be required to present UK consumers with an ongoing, highly visible, simple, unavoidable choice over its use.

By Dr Dan Boucher | 27 November 2018 | 18 comments

There’s a serious discussion to have about data and electoral law, but it is yet to take place.

Our democracy is poorly served by widespread ignorance about campaign technology, and the fact glamorous alarmism wins more headlines than grubby reality.

By Mark Wallace | 10 November 2018 | 32 comments

Bercow, the anti-Lenthall. “I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak, in this place, but as Labour MPs are pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here.”

Even the mice in the Commons tea room know that he was put in by one party and is kept there by one party.

By Paul Goodman | 24 October 2018 | 87 comments

Profile: Damian Collins. Running energetically (and sometimes tumbling over) as he pursues Leave campaigners

A Conservative MP who has seen much of Collins says: “I like him. He’s more intelligent and thoughtful than his public manner gives one to expect.”

By Andrew Gimson | 18 October 2018 | 21 comments

How should our electoral law change to work in the digital age?

From ‘fake news’ to micro-targeting, crowd-funding to data rights, we explore the key areas of focus for an overdue review of the rules of our democracy.

By Mark Wallace | 1 August 2018 | 31 comments

Iain Dale: It was Phillip Lee, but could have been me

Plus: Damian Collins and his useless Select Committee shot themselves in the foot this week. Let grandstanding committee chairmen be warned.

By Iain Dale | 15 June 2018 | 208 comments

WATCH: Collins – “We have a right to know the extent of Arron Banks’ relationship with the Russian embassy”

The Chairman of the Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Select Committee is looking forward to questioning him this week.

10 June 2018 | 204 comments

WATCH: Whittingdale’s tribute to Baroness Jowell

The former Chairman of the Culture, Media, and Sport Select Committee relates how they collaborated to win support for Britain’s Olympic bid.

13 May 2018 | 2 comments

Nicholas Mazzei: Why it’s unfair to tell us Diehard Remainers to “get over it”

A response to Paul Goodman’s recent article arguing that opponents of Leave should accept that spending didn’t swing the referendum – since Remain spent more.

By Nicholas Mazzei | 1 April 2018 | 405 comments

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