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media matters (or does it?) (Free subscription) | yesterday
I suppose I’m getting to the stage in my life where I might be considered cynical certainly when the subject of politicians comes up but I must say I thought Ben Bradshaw MP and Minister of State with respect to the DCMS gave a pretty good performance in front of the VOLaV last week. Brasdshaw made clear that he thought the BBC was far safer with Labour in power than with what appears to be the...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
For the sake of our cultural life, politicians like Bradshaw and Johnson should leave political drama to the arts Art and politics have always been, and always will be, locked in a complicated and often uncomfortable dance, from Velázquez's double-edged depiction of Pope Innocent X to Mark Wallinger's Turner prize-winning State Britain – a meticulous recreation of Brian Haw's Parliament...
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Lynne Featherstone's Parliament and Haringey diary (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Well - as predicted - I failed to win Politician of the Year at the Stonewall Awards last night. Ben Bradshaw (Labour Minister) won the accolade as the first openly gay Minister. I think, judging from the blurb in the program - that I was nominated because of my work both on the Equality Bill [...]
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The Stage (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Culture secretary Ben Bradshaw has proposed reclassifying production companies owned by Channel 3 licence holders, such as STV and UTV, as independent producers, in a bid to stimulate production throughout the UK.
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Whitehall 1212 (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Task saturated is what the helicopter pilots call overload and that's how it felt at Westminster yesterday. There was the Kelly report on expenses, five dead in Helmand and Kim Howell breaking ranks calling for a withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and David Cameron making a major policy announcement on Europe. In the middle of all that I had to go interview Culture Minister Ben Bradshaw about broadcasting...
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New Statesman (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
An interview with the Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Culture secretary disagrees with PM's decision not to promise a referendum on electoral reform on general election day but believes policy is not yet 'set in stone' What is it about referendums? In the Conservative party they're still arguing about having one on the Libson treaty. In the Labour party, on the other hand, Ben Bradshaw, the culture secretary, has just reopened a row about holding one...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The government could hold a referendum on electoral reform on the same day as the next general election, Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw says.
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Britain's culture secretary, Ben Bradshaw, "said Tory culture policy was totally aligned with the commercial interests of Rupert Murdoch's News International and predicted the central tenet of British cultural policy - the arm's length relationship between the arts and government - is about to be swept away."...
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Carl Minns - Thoughts from Hull (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
I have been following the debate on the future of public sector broadcasting for a while now. The latest voice in this sphere is Labour MP Ben Bradshaw who is in today's Guardian calling for "luvvies to defend the BBC from the Tories" and stating that the Tories cultural policy is aligned with Rupert Murdoch . I am naturally assuming that this is not the same Ben Bradshaw who in an article...
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Memex 1.1 (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Tom Watson, the former Cabinet Office minister and the only guy in the government who really understood the networked world, gave Ben Bradshaw an exemplary grilling in Committee Lord Mandelson’s Dangerous Downloaders Act. Here’s an excerpt from the transcript on Tom’s blog: Q25 Mr Watson: Perhaps we can explore what a tier one tribunal [...]
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Londonist (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Image / Craig Richardson The Houses of Parliament will next year take a major step into the modern world by hosting its first ever gay wedding . Under Pugin's fixtures and fittings, Europe minister Chris Bryant and his fiancee Jared Cranney will have a civil partnership ceremony, marking another victory for gay rights and acceptability: it was only three years ago that Ben Bradshaw became the first...
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The Jobbing Doctor (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Postman Pat [a.k.a Alan Johnson MP] has returned. Until recently he has been a bit of a Teflon minister - nothing sticks to him. When at the Department of Health he did nothing except sound pleasant, and left all the rubbish to be dealt with by his junior minister (Ben Bradshaw - looking for a job in 2010). He's now at the Home Office and this has been a graveyard for most ambitious politicians (the...
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The Croydonian (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
is Ben Bradshaw . Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what (a) meetings he has had with representatives of (i) his Department's sponsored bodies and (ii) outside organisations or individuals and (b) events he has attended in his capacity as Secretary of State since June 2009 He's been to Bayreuth, an Ashes Test match, Wimbledon and goodly number of plays, operas,...
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edward_ winkleman (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
What harm could she do really, one wonders? What harm could it do to have the former editor of London's Evening Standard take over the top arts job in the British capital? I mean it's not as if the stakes are a high as when the former commissioner for the International Arabian Horse Association, Michael Brown, stood for photo-ops as the Director of FEMA receiving a pat on the back from former US President...
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