‘Investing in culture builds confidence in communities’
MPs whose constituencies cover Milton Keynes write about the importance of culture to their place as it is shortlisted for City of Culture.
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‘Our regional theatres are engines of growth. Labour should help them thrive’
Growing up in Norfolk, where my mother ran the local arts centre in King’s Lynn, I saw the difference arts and culture can make to people’s lives. Theatres and cultural venues bring communities together, give people opportunities to…
Could Musk’s social media platform go X-tinct in Britain?
With Ofcom investigating X, James Tibbitts gives his opinion on how the government should respond if the platform is banned in the UK.
Labour cabinet: Lisa Nandy returns to more senior post after recent demotion
Wigan MP and former leadership contender Lisa Nandy has been appointed a Secretary of State at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport – despite being demoted in the shadow cabinet last year.
For the online safety bill to be effective, the government must grow a backbone
As the Prime Minister shuffles the deckchairs, so much in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport that is already long overdue action is at risk of being snarled up. The most pressing issue is online safety, which cannot see any further…
Through our cyber hub, we will prepare young people for the jobs of the future
When Labour established the NHS in 1948, Nye Bevan said he was going to ‘Tredegarise’ our health service. What he meant was that what he and his comrades in South Wales had developed could be scaled up and delivered across the UK. In our…
The real-life and potentially irreversible impact of a ‘zombie government’
Thursday saw the Tory leadership contest narrowed down to five, with Suella Braverman the latest candidate to be dispensed with by Tory MPs. The attorney general received the backing of just 27 of her colleagues in yesterday's ballot, short…
Online harms bill “yet another broken promise” from Johnson, says Labour
Labour has described the failure of Boris Johnson to bring forward the online harms bill before Christmas as "yet another broken promise" from the Prime Minister, who had pledged to accelerate the passage of the legislation. Lucy Powell…
Dorries doesn’t understand online safety. Can Labour get a grip on it?
“...the phrase “the real world” is interesting. I think that there’s a physical world and there’s a digital world, and increasingly those are being overlaid and coming together, but increasingly the real world is the combination of the…
“A happier and healthier future for our country” – Jo Stevens’ conference speech
Below is the full text of the speech delivered by Shadow Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Jo Stevens to Labour Party conference in Brighton today. Hello conference. Jo Stevens, Cardiff Central CLP, and after 25 conferences, first…
Ban perpetrators of online racist abuse from football grounds, Labour urges
Labour has urged the government to use the online safety bill to give courts the power to ban anyone convicted of online racist abuse from attending football matches. The opposition party has been critical of ministers' response to abuse…
Tories criticised as online harms bill “kicked further down the road”
Labour has accused the Conservatives of having "kicked further down the road" plans to bring forward an online harms bill as the minister told MPs the legislation would not be introduced until the next parliamentary session. Highlighting…