Five months into the role of Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the House of Commons, and Damian Collins MP has consolidated a reputation as a well-informed politician with a decent grasp of key issues, ranging from fake news to the complexities of press regulation, post-Leveson. His recent appearance at the Oxford […]
Folkestone and Hythe MP Damian Collins has questioned whether newspaper editors can also be MPs in the wake of the news that George Osborne has taken the job of editor of the Evening Standard. Mr Collins, the chairman of the culture media and sport committee, said: "I don't think newspaper editors should also be MPs […]
Scrutiny of the “medical package” sent by courier to France for Sir Bradley Wiggins has intensified after Team Sky admitted that the same drug said to be in the Jiffy bag had been bought three months before in a pharmacy just three hours’ drive away. Team Sky said that they had previously bought Fluimucil from […]
Two Kent towns have been hailed as among the coolest places to live in Britain. According to new rankings published in The Times, Margate and Folkestone are both achingly cool. Margate was ranked third in the chart. The write-up said: "Dreamland — the revamped retro amusement park where Damon Albarn is curating a one-day music […]
The doctor at the centre of controversial therapeutic use exemptions for Sir Bradley Wiggins will face a fresh summons to appear before a parliamentary select committee, but Britain’s most decorated Olympian looks set to escape a potentially uncomfortable session in front of MPs. Richard Freeman missed last week’s culture, media and sport committee, saying that […]
I thank the Secretary of State for her letter to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Friday setting out the case she made to the House today. Can she confirm that the fit and proper person test is rightly a matter for Ofcom and that Ofcom can initiate a fit and proper person test […]
MP for Folkestone and Hythe, Damian Collins, has denounced Donald Trump’s use of the term ‘fake news’ as “dangerous”. Speaking to students at a meeting at the Press Association on Wednesday, the chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee Mr Collins described the US President’s interpretation of the phenomenon as “anything he doesn’t agree […]
The doctor at the centre of the “Jiffy bag” investigation into Sir Bradley Wiggins has pulled out of today’s parliamentary hearing, claiming illness, as he was about to be questioned about treatments administered to the 2012 Tour de France champion. Richard Freeman, a former Team Sky doctor who now works for British Cycling, said that […]
Chairman of Culture, Media and Sport Committee Damian Collins attacks US President for use of inflammatory term to deride 'anything he doesn't agree with' An influential politician on the crusade against fake news has denounced Donald Trump's use of the term as “dangerous”. Speaking to students at a meeting at the Press Association on Wednesday, the […]
Richard Freeman, the doctor at the centre of the controversy over the ‘jiffy bag’ delivered to Sir Bradley Wiggins at a race back in 2011, has sensationally pulled out of his long-awaited appearance before the Culture Media and Sport Select Committee on Wednesday, citing illness. The development comes as UK Anti-Doping, which has been investigating […]