A parliamentary inquiry is set to be held into the demise of Bury Football Club. Damian Collins, chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee, described the EFL's decision to expel the Shakers last week as a 'tragedy'. Mr Collins said the decision to end the club's 125-year membership, which was taken after a […]
The Jeremy Kyle Show producers treated guests like criminal suspects, the MP leading an inquiry into reality TV has claimed. The House of Commons culture select committee heard from two of the show's former guests on Wednesday. Dwayne Davison, who first appeared in 2014, told MPs he was locked in a small room and had […]
Former Love Island star Marcel Sommerville has said the aftermath of the show felt like the "worst period" of his life. The rapper was giving evidence at a Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee hearing on reality television when he made the comment on Wednesday. He appeared in front of MPs alongside 2019 Islander Yewanda Biala, telling […]
This week is traditionally seen as the start of the new parliamentary year, as the House of Commons returns from its summer recess. However, the first items of business focus our attention on the problems that were not solved in the previous session, rather than on new challenges. In particular the overwhelming need for us […]
Conservative MP Damian Collins has expressed concern about whether electoral rules have been sufficiently strengthened in time for a snap general election later this year. In an interview with Cherwell, Collins, who chairs the parliamentary Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee, was asked whether current electoral rules would prevent a repeat of the 2016 scandal […]
Since Boris Johnson was appointed as Prime Minister at the end of July, the primary focus of the government has rightly been preparing the United Kingdom to leave the European Union at the end of October. There have been renewed efforts to re-open the negotiations on the withdrawal agreement between this country and the EU, […]
The fans of Bury football club, one that has played in the football league for the last 125 years and won the FA Cup twice, have seen their team expelled to the outer reaches of non-league football. The fate of Bolton Wanderers, a team that until seven years ago enjoyed an unbroken run of 11 seasons […]
Mark Carney is facing questions over a “secret” trip to Silicon Valley for a meeting with the founder of Facebook. The governor of the Bank of England flew to San Francisco in mid-April, where he met Mark Zuckerberg. Two months later Facebook unveiled plans for libra, a cryptocurrency aimed at changing how money is moved around […]
Senior MPs have backed a Premier League star's call for social media firms to verify accounts with users' passports to stop racist online abuse. Manchester United defender Harry Maguire urged Instagram and Twitter to make users identify themselves in the same way as betting apps after his teammate Paul Pogba was subjected to a torrent […]
Facebook's denials that it had given "inconsistent evidence" about the Cambridge Analytica affair have failed to convince a senior MP. The US company had been accused of contradicting itself in testimony to US and British officials. It defended itself by drawing a distinction between two incidents that had raised internal red flags about the political […]