Apologies for the delay it’s been quite a busy week. Here is this week’s news: New Government stuff Jeremy is the new Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, media and Sport, more HERE! Ed is the new Minister of State for Culture, more HERE! Following the Dave and Nick show, the Ed and Don show, [...]
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Weekly email: 6th May 2010
Here is this week’s news: Election Stuff Jeremy got in the back of the Sun’s cab-inet to answer the cabbie’s questions and did well, even getting the question about Wayne Rooney’s ankle right, more HERE Ben Bradshaw did a webchat on the Guardian’s website on Tuesday, more HERE in which he again peddled the (completely [...]
Click here to read more and comment ...Weekly email: 29th April 2010
Here is this week’s news: Election stuff Tory Stuff David Cameron launched our Quality of Life Manifesto early this week, which reaffirms our commitment to the arts and free museums, more and download the full document HERE See pages 10 and 11 for our specific commitments to the arts. David Cameron has given an interview [...]
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Here is this week’s news: Election stuff Manifestos All three main parties have now published their election manifestos. Labour, HERE, Conservative HERE (or view the Guardian’s annotated interactive version HERE) and the Lib Dems yesterday, HERE. On our blog we’ve pulled out the sector specific bits of the Labour manifesto HERE and our manifesto HERE, while the [...]
Click here to read more and comment ...Weekly email: 1st April 2010
We’d like to wish all our readers a very Happy Easter. Today is April Fool’s day. Tory Stuff Ed spoke at the LGA Culture Tourism and Sport conference in Gateshead yesterday. Read his speech, and about the conference more widely, on their blog, including ACE chief executive Alan Davey who has been making the case for maintaining [...]
Click here to read more and comment ...Weekly email 25th March 2010
Here is this week’s news: Budget Special Despite their disingenuous hints that the arts budget might be ring-fenced, the Budget has revealed Labour’s plans to cut the culture budget substantially. Ben Bradshaw has announced £60 million of cuts – sorry, efficiency savings – across the DCMS. The overall budget is frozen for a year – so [...]
Click here to read more and comment ...Weekly email: 18/03/2010
Here is this week’s news: Tory Stuff Ed and Jeremy have been interviewed by the Stage on our cultural policies, full article HERE Creative Industries Digital Piracy Significant progress on digital piracy this week, when the government decided to accept the substance of the amendment put forward by us and the Lib Dems to tackle [...]
Click here to read more and comment ...Weekly email: 11/03/2010
BBC 6 Music celebrates its eighth birthday tonight. Martha Vaizey is two tomorrow. Here is the rest of this week’s less important news: Tory Stuff Design Sir James Dyson’s Ingenious Britain report into making Britain the leading high tech exporter in Europe was published this week. More, and a link to download the report itself [...]
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