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Saudi Arabia Supports Efforts To Develop Innovative Cultural Policies

Saudi Culture Minister Prince Badr bin Abdullah bin Farhan said that the Kingdom supports local, regional and international efforts to develop innovative cultural policies and promote the role of the cultural sector as a major factor of sustainable development. The minister’s remarks came during a high-level ministerial session of the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Pressure on ministers to release details of meeting linked to Boris Johnson flat refurb

Ministers are resisting the release of documents related to a meeting about plans for a new ‘Great Exhibition’ between then-Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden, refurb-bankroller Lord Brownlow and the Royal Albert Hall last January

Daily Mirror

House of Lords committee to launch inquiry into funding of BBC

Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries had previously announced that the licence fee would be frozen for the next two years.

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Brickbat: Now, That's Going Too Far

British Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries said the government is preparing legislation that would limit streaming services from showing comedy that some people might find offensive. Her remarks came after some people expressed outrage about comedian Jimmy Carr's latest special for Netflix. In one bit, Carr said that when people talk…

Reason

Nadine Dorries slams 'abhorrent' Jimmy Carr and says new laws will ban offensive comedy

Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has suggested new laws would hold to account streaming sites from airing controversial jokes after the backlash surrounding Jimmy Carr's Netflix special, His Dark Material

Daily Mirror

Nadine Dorries considering law that could see Netflix fined for offensive jokes

The Culture Secretary said the government is considering a new law that could see Netflix face sanctions over Jimmy Carr's joke about the deaths of members of travelling communities in the Holocaust

Daily Mirror

Nadine Dorries bristles in TV car-crash and blames Boris Johnson's untruths on researchers

The Culture Secretary appeared affronted when asked when she last spoke to Boris Johnson, whom she'd been sent on TV to defend

Daily Mirror

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Culture Secretary says new laws will stop Netflix airing offensive comments following Jimmy Carr uproar

Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has suggested the government could bring in legislation that stops steaming services from airing offensive content.

Evening Standard

Nadine Dorries grilled in awkward interview over Boris Johnson 'Partygate' scandal

The Culture Secretary was tasked with defending Johnson this morning after the Prime Minister was reportedly pictured holding a can of beer during an alleged rule-busting party for his birthday in June 2020.

Daily Record

Dorries mixes up MPs, supports PM on Savile slur and says Partygate is 'Remainer plot'

The Culture Secretary has defended the Prime Minister in an interview on Saturday morning

Wales Online

Culture Secretary was embarrassing in defence of PM, says festival boss

Sacha Lord, co-founder of Parklife, criticised the Culture Secretary for lack of communication with others in the sector.

The Independent UK

Arts and culture outside London to receive funding in Levelling Up White Paper

Places such as Stoke-on-Trent, Barnsley, Rochdale and Wigan may end up being given further support under the plans.

The Independent UK

Cabinet ministers clash over BBC licence fee plans

Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has hinted that she clashed in a Cabinet meeting with Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries over plans to scrap the licence fee which funds the BBC.

Evening Standard

French MPs vote to return artworks stolen by Nazis to rightful owners

French parliamentarians have voted unanimously in favour of a bill to restore stolen artworks, looted by Nazis during the second world war, to their Jewish owners. Culture minister Roselyne Bachelot said it was a "historic" moment that would set wheels in motion for further restitutions.

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Wales Online

Former BBC News head calls on corporation to 'stop making lower grade stuff'

Roger Mosey speaks out after Culture Secretary confirms licence fee is to be frozen at £159 for two years

Daily Mirror

Pensioners left 'bitterly disappointed' at Tory Nadine Dorries in TV licence row

Older people's group Silver Voices lashed out at the controversial Culture Secretary in the latest development in the over-75s' free licences dispute

Daily Mirror

Hollywood's Jack O'Connell backs his hometown Derby for City of Culture 2025

Actor Jack O'Connell is supporting his hometown Derby in becoming the UK's City of Culture 2025

Daily Record

We cannot let Tory minister Nadine Dorries ruin the BBC to save Boris's skin

The Conservative Culture Secretary's war on the licence fee is putting one of our greatest institutions at risk - all for the sake of protecting the hapless Prime Minister, writes Annie Brown.

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Evening Standard

Licence fee: There is a debate to be had about BBC funding — but not to save Boris Johnson

We have been here before — and not long ago. When Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries tweeted on Sunday that “[t]his licence fee announcement will be the last”, she was renewing a battle against the BBC that was last fought by the Government two years ago. Reprimanded by Speaker Sir Lindsay…

Irish Mirror

Will the RTE license fee be scrapped like the BBC one in the UK? Top producers and RTE respond

Exclusive: The UK's Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has said the next announement of the BBC licence fee "will be the last".

The Independent UK

Culture Secretary’s BBC licence fee reforms branded ‘unpatriotic’ by Labour MPs

MPs debated Nadine Dorries’ announcement that the BBC licence fee would be frozen at £159 for two years.

Daily Record

SNP say BBC licence fee freeze an attack on journalism to distract from Boris Johnson party scandals

The sudden announcement by Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries is seen as part of the government's the 'red meat' strategy to head off anger from Tory MPs over Boris Johnson's rule-breaking parties.

Manchester Evening News

BBC licence fee will be frozen for two years, culture secretary confirms

Nadine Dorries told the House of Commons that the licence fee will be fixed at £159 until April 2024

Daily Mirror

BBC licence fee frozen at £159 until 2024 'then axed' in 'attack on journalism'

Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries told real terms cut is "cultural vandalism" and is a "desperate" attempt to distract from 'partygate'

Wales Online

BBC licence fee: Nadine Dorries to give statement to MPs

The Culture Secretary had tweeted over the weekend that it is time to discuss new ways of funding the corporation

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