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Articles tagged with: Culture
Pastimes: Stella Creasy watches Love Island
Culture
By Rosamund Urwin
Pastimes: Stella Creasy watches Love Island
In her occasional series, Rosamund Urwin meets up with parliamentarians to discuss how they unwind away from Westminster. Here, Stella Creasy settles down in front of her favourite TV show
Privatising Channel 4 would be a loss for democracy
Culture
By Tobias Ellwood MP
Privatising Channel 4 would be a loss for democracy
In August 2009, I was visiting Washington DC when TV channels interrupted their broadcasts with breaking news. Senator Ted Kennedy was dead.
We finally have an Online Safety Bill with real teeth to regulate harmful online content
Culture
By Lord Vaizey
We finally have an Online Safety Bill with real teeth to regulate harmful online content
Way, way, way back in the day (actually twelve years ago), as minister for technology I responded to a debate called by then MP Claire Perry, who was quite rightly concerned by how easy it was for kids to access adult content online.
Place and culture are key to levelling up the north
Communities
By Lord Inglewood
Place and culture are key to levelling up the north
Even before Constantine was acclaimed Roman Emperor in York, the capital of lower Britain in 306AD, the north of England was an integral and important part, albeit a distinct one, of what is now the UK.
Coventry shares the love after taking the helm as City of Culture Partner content
Communities
By The National Lottery
Coventry shares the love after taking the helm as City of Culture
When the Department of Digital, Culture, Media & Sport named Coventry as 2021’s City of Culture, it proved it believed in the West Midlands city. And thanks to National Lottery funding, Coventry is now sharing all the amazing things about the city that they already knew and wanted others to see.
The BBC is one of our shining assets – we must support it
Culture
By Peter Bottomley MP
The BBC is one of our shining assets – we must support it
If it were not serious, we could be amused at the suggestion that freezing the BBC fee for two years will make a significant difference to household budgets.
Northern culture must be at the heart of post-pandemic recovery to truly level up
Communities
By James Daly MP and Julie Elliott MP
Northern culture must be at the heart of post-pandemic recovery to truly level up
Culture connects people and communities like nothing else.
The BBC may have its faults, but it’s a pillar of British culture that must be protected
Culture
By Lord Vaizey
The BBC may have its faults, but it’s a pillar of British culture that must be protected
Nadine Dorries’ recent announcement that the BBC Licence fee is to be frozen for two years, and, more provocatively, that the licence fee as the way it is funded would end in 2027, has generated a lot of heat but not much light – on both sides of the debate.
Partner content
Culture
By Bar Council
Bar Council
Bar Council: Mark Fenhalls QC inaugural speech
Mark Fenhalls QC, Chair-Elect of the Bar Council, inaugural speech.
Musicians deserve a fair share of streaming money
Culture
By Kevin Brennan MP
Musicians deserve a fair share of streaming money
I love music streaming. Who wouldn’t want to be able to access all the world’s music from a device in their back pocket? For those of us who grew up carrying 12-inch vinyl records around under their arms, streaming is a musical miracle.
Supporting the creative industries beyond Covid-19
Culture
By Lord Vaizey and Barry Sheerman MP
Supporting the creative industries beyond Covid-19
The impact of Covid-19 lockdowns on the creative industries has been enormous, with the restrictions on our galleries and exhibitions a matter of dismay right across the country. These facilities provide significant health and well-being benefits as community touch-points – benefits that we have come to appreciate all the more during Covid-19.
Algorithms are undermining efforts to eradicate racism
Culture
By Chi Onwurah MP
Algorithms are undermining efforts to eradicate racism
One and a half years ago, the #BlackLivesMatter protests over the terrible killing of George Floyd shone a spotlight on racism. Last year, in a parliamentary debate to mark Black History Month, I spoke of the possibility of eradicating racism.
Lords Diary: Lord Clement Jones
Economy
By Lord Clement-Jones
Lords Diary: Lord Clement Jones
Down the corridor in the Commons, early November was dominated by No 10’s Owen Paterson U-turn and in Glasgow by events at COP26 – but for me it was an opportunity to raise a number of issues relevant to innovation and the development of technology and the future of our creative industries. It started with the great news that Queen Mary University of London, whose council I chair, after many trials and tribulations, has agreed a property deal next to our Whitechapel campus with the Department of Health and Social Care. It paves the way for the development, with Barts Life Sciences, of a major research centre within a new UK Whitechapel Life Sciences Cluster.
The BBC has to step up to keep us tuned in
Culture
By Andy Carter MP
The BBC has to step up to keep us tuned in
The government has set out ambitious plans in recent months to support our world leading media and broadcasters. This support is essential and timely, as British media businesses continue to grapple with shifting audience habits and significant economic challenges.
Levelling Up: What’s art got to do with it? Partner content
Coronavirus
By Inc Arts
Levelling Up: What’s art got to do with it?
The creative and cultural sector can be a powerful tool in reducing inequality. If we're serious about levelling up, then we must invest in the arts.
Inside Westminster's history of contested monuments
Culture
By Lord Wallace
Inside Westminster's history of contested monuments
Oliver Cromwell as a regicide was originally absent from the line of statues of former rulers within the Palace. Walking around Parliament should remind us that arguments about our country’s history have a long history themselves.
To stop the culture wars, learn from gay rights
Culture
By Luke Tryl
To stop the culture wars, learn from gay rights
In dousing the flames of the culture wars, our leaders would do well to look to the push for gay equality and to learn from it how to better live up to the public’s expectations about navigating cultural change in Britain today.
Singing can heal our divided country
Culture
By Lord Roberts of Llandudno
Singing can heal our divided country
The political arguments of the past decade have torn families and communities apart. Now, as we look to move past this deadly pandemic, we must rediscover that sense of community.
Summer of Culture: What will the return look like where you are?
Coronavirus
By Georgina Bailey
Summer of Culture: What will the return look like where you are?
After 15 months of mothballing, the UK’s cultural gems are nearly back in business. The directors of 14 theatres, galleries and operas around the country tell Georgina Bailey what they hope re-opening will look like – and what they need to recover.
Government’s failure to provide festivals with Covid insurance is paradoxical and disappointing
Culture
By Earl of Clancarty
Government’s failure to provide festivals with Covid insurance is paradoxical and disappointing
It is not too late for the government to step in with an insurance scheme for festivals. It would allow events to run without organisers shouldering the risk if we suffer another wave and they are forced to cancel again.
As the lockdown begins to lift, find your happy place Partner content
Education
By The National Lottery
As the lockdown begins to lift, find your happy place
We must support, not cut, working class access to arts and culture
Education
By Sharon Hodgson MP
We must support, not cut, working class access to arts and culture
Art takes many forms in life, shaping how we learn and how we feel. Art is essential. But we have a long way to go to make sure that art can be accessible for all.
Music-making is out of tune with disabled children’s needs
Education
By Dr Stephen Hetherington
Music-making is out of tune with disabled children’s needs
Children with disabilities are encouraged and enabled to participate in sport. That same drive must be applied to helping them reach their full musical potential
Who wants to live in a cultural desert? It’s time to acknowledge the true value of the arts
Culture
By Tasmin Little
Who wants to live in a cultural desert? It’s time to acknowledge the true value of the arts
The UK cultural sector makes a huge contribution to our economy and wellbeing. Unless the government wants to preside over its demise, ministers must step in with funding support, and put creative subjects at the heart of our national curriculum.