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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
U.K. Culture Minister, Barbara Follett, has placed a temporary export bar on a rare George I giltwood twelve-light chandelier. This will provide a last chance to raise the money to keep this important chandelier in the United Kingdom. The Minister’s ruling follows a recommendation by the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and [...]
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Latest News (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Architecture minister Barbara Follett has joined the campaign to save a hut in Antarctica used by Captain Scott.
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Latest News (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Architecture minister Barbara Follett has delisted a London building by Colin St John Wilson, against English Heritage advice.
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Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
CULTURE minister Barbara Follett met creative Merseyside firms to hear how they have fared during Capital of Culture year.
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p2pnet (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
p2pnet news view Politics | Freedom:- UK culture minister Barbara Follett, and her Tory shadow, Ed Vaizey, “have backed the idea that web providers must be embarrassed into dealing with violent, sexually explicit web content,” says The Guardian. There’s, “growing chaos out there on the internet,” and, “order needs to be brought,” Follett reckons, says the [...]
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the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
Nick Farrell the Inquirer , Monday 17 November 2008. 07:38:00 League tables of morality THE UK government has decided to publish league tables naming and shaming internet service providers don't take down offensive material fast enough. Culture minister, Barbara Follett, and her Tory shadow, Ed Vaizey, have decided that if an ISP does not delete violent or sexually explicit web content they must be...
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The Ranting Kraut (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
New Labour’s Barbara Follett is quoted in the Guardian as saying that the internet needs to be regulated “the sooner the better”. She wants an ‘age identification card’ for online access and pre-screening of user generated contents uploads. Don’t expect things to stop there. Once the mode of delivery is regulated in a way to [...]
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newsjiffy (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
Culture minister Barbara Follett is backing the pre-screening of user-generated content. I'm not sure someone who believes that paedophiles can watch children through the Internet is the best person to make judgements about online matters. Chris Morris' wonderful Brass Eye showed Barbara Follet reading from cue cards that "an online paedophile" had converted the eye of Pantu the Dog, "a child's game...
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Obnoxio The Clown (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
Barbara Follett thinks this is a good idea: Politicians are ready to introduce league tables naming and shaming the speed with which internet service providers take down offensive material. Anybody who thinks the Tories will be any better? The culture minister, Barbara Follett, and her Tory shadow, Ed Vaizey , have backed the idea that web providers must be embarrassed into dealing with violent, sexually...
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The Good Library Blog (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
Those of us who spent a long time preparing our spoken and our written evidence to the last Culture Select Committee, thinking we were making a contribution to public service need to be mindful of the way that Ministers regard these things. This is what Barbara Follett, Minister for libraries, said to the chair of one such committee today 'It is sometimes difficult to read all the way through a Select...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Culture Minister Barbara Follett says funds could be made available to help homeless Gloucester City FC return to its ground.
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The Good Library Blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
The themes of most library campaign groups are - Don't close libraries - Put more books in them to make them useful - Opening hours should be longer - Modernise the buildings and the equipment - Experienced professional staff are needed at the front line - These are the elements that require proper funding. So a 'review' of libraries for these people would address these issues. Book issues and visits...
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The Good Library Blog (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
The BBC broadcast a programme from The Discovery Centre in Hampshire yesterday. I was honoured to be invited and even more impressed that Ken Thornber, who is the leader of the council came to talk about the work on public libraries that his council has undertaken and achieved in the past few years. There was much talk of books and book collections and I was absolutely taken by all that I saw. Miranda...
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Adam Smith Institute Blog (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
An interview in the Daily Telegraph with Tourism Minister Barbara Follett prompted me to check out the new "Tourism Strategy" recently published by the Department of Culture Media and Sport. The strategy is almost entirely devoted to making the Olympics a booster for tourism. More importantly, it shows just how true the old adage is about any pot of taxpayers' money being like honey for the busy bees...
