Nadine Dorries: The UK must become the safest place in the world to go online
MPs must make Britain the “safest place in the world to go online” by passing duty of care laws, says Nadine Dorries in an appeal to Tory…
The Tories are still empowering tech firms to repress our free speech
In the words of one Conservative backbencher: “I’m sick to death of watching the Cabinet f— it up.” The “it”, in this particular case, is the Online…
In a screeching U-turn, longtime Auntie-basher Nadine Dorries is reduced to tears by the BBC
As ever, Labour welcomed the ministerial statement but wondered why it hadn’t gone further. Shadow minister Chris Elmore sought assurances that “no Russian or Belorussian will play…
Nadine Dorries: The Government must ‘save the BBC from itself’
The Government must “save the BBC from itself” because the corporation is a “polar bear on a shrinking ice cap”, Nadine Dorries, the Culture Secretary, has claimed….
Social media giants that fail to prevent promotion of suicide face multi-million pound fines
Mr Russell told The Telegraph it was vital they did so. “The connection between self-harm and suicide, which I hadn’t realised before Molly’s death, seems to be…
Do young people still watch live TV? The BBC is betting on it
And yet, the BBC still feels there is a young audience it can still tap into. “The BBC believes that there remains a significant and relatively stable cohort…
Nadine Dorries backs statue celebrating Aphra Behn saying women owe writer ‘debt of gratitude’
Famed for the sexually explicit nature of her writing at a time when women were only considered attractive if they were demure, Behn “valued wit over virtue”…
The BBC lost its way the minute Auntie turned into an aggravating know-it-all
Why did the announcement by Nadine Dorries that the BBC licence fee will be frozen for the next two years, and possibly abolished altogether, cause so little…
There’s an obvious way for the BBC to defeat Nadine Dorries’s attack
This is the nub of the thing. To his credit, Tim Davie, when he was appointed in the autumn of 2020, made restoring the BBC’s reputation for…
Has the younger generation already killed off the BBC?
The licence fee gives the BBC an income of around £3.75 billion, with another £1.25 billion added through sales of its shows abroad and merchandising, giving it…
Nadine Dorries: My reforms could end prosecutions for refusing to pay BBC licence fee
Former Tory Cabinet minister Sir John Redwood said that the fee should be treated as a “household bill” to take “the pressure off the magistrates courts”. Ms…
Nadine Dorries declares an end to TV licence fee – but BBC warns move will have ‘serious implications’
Sources close to the BBC Board said Ms Dorries was creating a “cut-price” broadcaster and urged her not to plough ahead with her plan to freeze the…
BBC warns Nadine Dorries will plunge it into a ‘spiral of decline’ by declaring end to licence fee
Sources close to the BBC Board said Ms Dorries was creating a “cut-price” broadcaster and urged her not to plough ahead with her plan to freeze the…
British culture is in existential peril – DCMS must be broken up
In addition, next year, there must be a doubling down on the Government’s disdain for the “woke” vogue that’s plaguing the arts. There’s no point putting more…
The West End is at breaking point – Nadine Dorries needs to start playing her role
But so far, this December, instead of there being a full shutdown, the Government seems to be crossing its fingers and assuming that recreational activity such as…
‘Everyone always wants to talk to me about Channel 4’s future – privatisation is a big decision’
Mahon, a 48-year-old mother of four with a PhD in physics, insists her role in the process is “merely to advise on the benefits and the risks……