Tory Stuff
In a wide ranging speech, David Cameron has set his approach and philosophy as he addressed the TED (Technology Entertainment Design) conference in California, via satellite from London, more HERE and the accompanying document HERE which talks about our plans to allow the National Audit Office full access to the BBC’s accounts.
Creative Industries
Broadband
Our plan [...]
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Weely email: 11/02/2010
Weekly email: 04/01/2010
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Tory Stuff
George Osborne spoke this week, highlighting broadband and creative industries as essential in our approach to economic growth, full details of his speech HERE and details of our plans to make the UK the first major European country that has superfast broadband in the majority of homes by 2017 HERE.
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Weekly email: 28/01/2010
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Tory Stuff
Ed spoke this week on cultural education at the Yehudi Menuhin school. He warned that: ‘We are losing sight of the key aims of cultural education in a blizzard of initiatives. What I would like to do is bring some coherence, stability and long-term strategy to the sector.
I want to be [...]
Weekly email: 21/01/2010
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Tory Stuff
Media
Jeremy is speaking at the Oxford Media Convention as we email! Coverage of what he’s saying HERE and full transcript HERE.
In an interview this week with New Media Age, Shadow Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt acknowledged the vital role that the digital media industry plays in the UK economy, [...]
Click here to read more and comment ...Weekly email: 14/01/10
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Tory Stuff
Jeremy made a major speech on the arts at the RSA’s conference on arts policy, the largest conference of its kind held in recent years. He was doing his impressive speaking-without-notes trick so no transcript to link to, but he talked about our plans to: restore lottery funds [...]
Click here to read more and comment ...Weekly email 17-12-09
Here is this week’s news. There’s some stuff not in here, but that’s just because we’re saving it for our Christmas special!
Creative Industries
Video Games
Labour MP Tom Watson has suggested that the BBC could ‘really help’ small developers. He suggests that the corporation could allow developers to showcase applications or games on the BBC website, with [...]
Weekly email 10-12-09
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Pre Budget Report
The Pre-Budget report, which you can download HERE, had little good news for anyone in the arts or creative industries. Buried in the detail (page 194) was confirmation that the DCMS resource budget would remain pretty much the same over the next two years and its capital budget would [...]
Weekly email 03-12-09
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Tory Stuff
George Osborne spoke at the Tate family conference this week. This was the first major speech on the arts by a senior politician since Tony Blair’s farewell tour in 2005. As well as talking about his own personal interest in the arts, George set out our plans to ensure lottery [...]
Weekly email 19-11-09
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See Ed’s latest LinkedIn question about the BBC and post a response, HERE. And join up to our group, post news and participate in discussions, HERE.
Digital Economy Bill
We hope you are as excited as we are for more news on the much vaunted Digital Economy Bill. We would have loved to [...]
Weekly email 12-11-2009
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Creative Industries
BBC
The BBC has published the salaries and expenses of their most senior decision makers. More details are available HERE and all the expenses information is available
HERE Jeremy has said that: ‘This is good news as far as it goes and I welcome it as a step in the right direction. [...]
