The Superleague and questions for Number Ten

We wondered why no effort was made to square the Government. Perhaps the Culture Select Committee can establish whether it was – and what happened.

Ed Vaizey: Government must will the means, as well as the ends, in supporting public service broadcasters

They do vital work that benefits the whole nation, but won’t be able to compete with the Big Tech giants unless ministers take action now.

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.

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.

Full membership list of select committees

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.