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The Labour Party Is More Than the Shadow Cabinet, and Corbyn Must Learn to Engage with It
The Labour Party is more than the shadow cabinet, and Corbyn must learn to engage with it blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/the-labour-party-is-more-than-the-shadow-cabinet/ 1/11/2016 The three-day reshuffle of the shadow cabinet might have helped Jeremy Corbyn stamp his mark on the party but he needs to do more to ensure his leadership lasts, writes Eunice Goes. She explains the Labour leader must engage with all groups that have historically made up the party, while his rhetoric should focus more on policies that resonate with the public. Doing so will require a stronger vision of what he means by ‘new politics’ and, crucially, a better communications strategy. By Westminster standards Labour’s shadow cabinet reshuffle was ‘shambolic’ and had the key ingredients of a ‘pantomime’. At least, it was in those terms that it was described by a large number of Labour politicians and Westminster watchers. It certainly wasn’t slick, or edifying. Taking the best of a week to complete a modest shadow cabinet reshuffle was revealing of the limited authority the leader Jeremy Corbyn has over the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP). Against the wishes of the Labour leader, the Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn and the Shadow Chief Whip Rosie Winterton kept their posts. However, Corbyn was able to assert his authority in other ways. He moved the pro-Trident Maria Eagle from Defence and appointed the anti-Trident Emily Thornberry to the post. He also imposed some ground rules on Hillary Benn and got rid of Michael Dugher and Pat McFadden on the grounds of disloyalty. -
'Pinkoes Traitors'
‘PINKOES AND TRAITORS’ The BBC and the nation, 1974–1987 JEAN SEATON PROFILE BOOKS First published in Great Britain in !#$% by Pro&le Books Ltd ' Holford Yard Bevin Way London ()$* +,- www.pro lebooks.com Copyright © Jean Seaton !#$% The right of Jean Seaton to be identi&ed as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act $++/. All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the publisher of this book. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN +4/ $ /566/ 545 6 eISBN +4/ $ /546% +$6 ' All reasonable e7orts have been made to obtain copyright permissions where required. Any omissions and errors of attribution are unintentional and will, if noti&ed in writing to the publisher, be corrected in future printings. Text design by [email protected] Typeset in Dante by MacGuru Ltd [email protected] Printed and bound in Britain by Clays, Bungay, Su7olk The paper this book is printed on is certi&ed by the © $++6 Forest Stewardship Council A.C. (FSC). It is ancient-forest friendly. The printer holds FSC chain of custody SGS-COC-!#6$ CONTENTS List of illustrations ix Timeline xvi Introduction $ " Mrs Thatcher and the BBC: the Conservative Athene $5 -
Score and Ignore: a Radio Listener's Guide to Ignoring Health Stories
Score and ignore A radio listener’s guide to ignoring health stories Do you shout at the morning radio when a story about a medical “risk” is distorted, exaggerated, mangled out of all recognition? Does your annoyance ruin your breakfast? You are not alone. Kevin McConway and David Spiegel- halter have developed a defence strategy to save their start-of-the-day sanity. Strike back at the presenters! And make it personal… When we wake up we are among the millions all of reporting, and applicability. In each case, a weaned] are more likely to eat fruit over the UK who turn on the Today programme on “yes” answer to the question indicates some and vegetables when they are older BBC Radio 4, presented by our favourite, veteran cause for concern about the report or the study than those given meals from jars and and generally excellent reporter John Humphrys. it is reporting on. A score of 12 “no” answers packets, researchers say.” This could be All over the US millions more tune in to simi- implies a perfect study, perfectly reported; 12 because the home-cooked food causes lar early news programmes with their own pet “yes” answers calls for apoplexy and vituperative the later eating behaviour, or it could be presenters. On many mornings there is a report letters to editors. Here goes: because some other aspect of the babies’ on the latest health risk story. At work we flip upbringing (a confounder) is associated through popular newspapers and there are more Study quality with both the weaning food and the later stories reporting the latest “research”, for exam- • Just observing people? diet. -
11 October 2019 Page 1 of 15 SATURDAY 05 OCTOBER 2019 Fans Helps Explain the Current State of Politics
Radio 4 Listings for 5 – 11 October 2019 Page 1 of 15 SATURDAY 05 OCTOBER 2019 fans helps explain the current state of politics. Editor: Eleanor Garland SAT 00:00 Midnight News (m0008y9h) Penny is an academic and a serial fan - covering everything National and international news from BBC Radio 4 from David Bowie to Ed Balls. And in this energetic and witty SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet (m00092tc) talk Penny argues that many of the characteristics of fandom Series 26 elsewhere - a rich interest, a wish to protect the sanctity of the SAT 00:30 Margaret Thatcher: Herself Alone (m0008y7r) fandom, and a refusal to tolerate criticism - also mark politics Isle of Wight Episode 5 and political fans, whatever side they're on. And that understanding politics in this way may help us understand it Jay Rayner and his panel are on the Isle of Wight. Polly Russell, How did Margaret Thatcher both change and divide Britain? better. Tim Hayward, Paula McIntyre and Tim Anderson answer the How did her model of combative female leadership help shape culinary questions from the audience. the way we live now? How did the woman who won the Cold Producer: Giles Edwards War and three general elections in succession find herself This week the panellists offer ideas for blackberries, suggest a pushed out by her own MPs? foolproof way to flip an omelette and discuss cheese soufflé. SAT 06:00 News and Papers (m00092t1) Charles Moore’s full account, based on unique access to The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at David Redup of Grace's bakery joins the panel with Bird's Margaret Thatcher herself, her papers, and her closest the papers. -
Women Mps in Westminster Photographs Taken May 21St, June 3Rd, June 4Th, 2008
“The House of Commons Works of Art Collection documents significant moments in Parliamentary history. We are delighted to have added this unique photographic record of women MPs of today, to mark the 90th anniversary of women first being able to take their seats in this House” – Hugo Swire, Chairman, The Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art. “The day the Carlton Club accepted women” – 90 years after women first got the vote aim to ensure that a more enduring image of On May 21st 2008 over half of all women women's participation in the political process Members of Parliament in Westminster survives. gathered party by party to have group photographs taken to mark the anniversary of Each party gave its permission for the 90 years since women first got the vote (in photographs to be taken. For the Labour February 1918 women over 30 were first Party, Barbara Follett MP, the then Deputy granted the vote). Minister for Women and Equality, and Barbara Keeley MP, who was Chair of the Labour Party Women’s Committee and The four new composite Caroline Adams, who works for the photographs taken party by Parliamentary Labour Party helped ensure that all but 12 of the Labour women party aim to ensure that a attended. more enduring image of For the Conservative women's participation in the Party, The Shadow Leader of the House of political process survives Commons and Shadow Minister for Until now the most often used photographic Women, Theresa May image of women MPs had been the so called MP and the Chairman “Blair Babes” picture taken on 7th May 1997 of the Conservative shortly after 101 Labour women were elected Party, Caroline to Westminster as a result of positive action by Spelman MP, enlisted the Labour Party. -
A Gender Balance Guide for Media
Amplifying women’s voices A Gender Balance Guide For Media Insights Acknowledgements This guide is a Women In News publication April 2020 CONTRIBUTORS Rebecca Zausmer for Women in News (WAN-IFRA) Simone Flueckiger for Women in News (WAN-IFRA) WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO Kesewa Hennessy the Financial Times (UK) Marie-Louise Jarlenfors VK Media (Sweden) Laura Warne & Andrea Leung The South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) Mary Mbewe The Daily Nation (Zambia) Lara Bonilla & Marta Rodríguez ARA, (Spain) Pål Nedregotten Amedia (Norway) Laura Zelenko Bloomberg DESIGN BY Julie Chahine The development of this guide was made possible with the generous support of Sida This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Women in News (WIN), an initiative by WAN-IFRA, WAN-IFRA is the global organisation of the world’s aims to increase women’s leadership and voices newspapers and news publishers, representing in the news. It does so by equipping women more than 18,000 publications, 15,000 online journalists and editors with the skills, strategies sites and over 3,000 companies in more than 120 and support networks they need to take on greater countries. WAN-IFRA is unique in its position as leadership positions and editorial influence within a global industry association with a human rights the industry. mandate to defend and promote media freedom, and the economic independence of news media as In parallel, WIN partners with media organisations an essential condition of that freedom. to identify industry-led solutions to close the gap between men and women in their newsrooms, WAN-IFRA applies a dual approach to supporting boardrooms and in the content they produce. -
Master Bibliography
SELECTED ITEMS OF MEDIA COVERAGE Selected Broadcast Comment Witness on BBC Radio 4 the Moral Maze, broadcast live at 2000 Wednesday 16th June 2010 Debate chaired by Quentin Cooper with Sir David King, Chris Whitty and Richard Davis, Material World, Radio 4 1630 Thursday 3rd January 2008 [on directions for science and innovation] Debate chaired by Sarah Montague with Tom Shakespeare, Today Programme, Radio 4 0850-0900, Friday Tuesday 4th September 2007 [on role of public in consultation on new technologies] D. Coyle, et al, Risky Business, Radio 4 ‘Analysis’ documentary, broadcast 11 December 2030, 14 December 2130, 2003 [interview on the precautionary principle] Tom Feilden, Political Interests in Biotechnology Science, Today Programme, Radio 4 0834-0843, Friday 19th September 2003 [on exercise of pressure in relation to GM Science Review Panel]. Roger Harrabin, Science Scares, Interview on the Today Programme, BBC Radio 4 0832, 10th January 2002 [on EEA report on risk and precaution]. ‘Sci-Files’, Australian National Radio, October 2000 [interview on risk, uncertainty and GM]. ‘Risk and Society’, The Commission, BBC Radio 4, 2000, 11 October 2000 [commission witness on on theme of risk and society] Selected Press Coverage of Work Andrew Jack, Battle Lines, Financial Times Magazine, 24th June 2011 [on need for tolerance of scepticism about science] Paul Dorfman, Who to Trust on Nuclear, Guardian, 14th April 2011 Charles Clover, Britain’s nuclear confidence goes into meltdown, Sunday Times, 20th March 2011 [on potential for a global sustainable -
Ministerial Reshuffle – 5 June 2009 8 June 2009
Ministerial Reshuffle – 5 June 2009 8 June 2009 This note provides details of the Cabinet and Ministerial reshuffle carried out by the Prime Minister on 5 June following the resignation of a number of Cabinet members and other Ministers over the previous few days. In the new Cabinet, John Denham succeeds Hazel Blears as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and John Healey becomes Housing Minister – attending Cabinet - following Margaret Beckett’s departure. Other key Cabinet positions with responsibility for issues affecting housing remain largely unchanged. Alistair Darling stays as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lord Mandelson at Business with increased responsibilities, while Ed Miliband continues at the Department for Energy and Climate Change and Hilary Benn at Defra. Yvette Cooper has, however, moved to become the new Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with Liam Byrne becoming Chief Secretary to the Treasury. The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills has been merged with BERR to create a new Department for Business, Innovation and Skills under Lord Mandelson. As an existing CLG Minister, John Healey will be familiar with a number of the issues affecting the industry. He has been involved with last year’s Planning Act, including discussions on the Community Infrastructure Levy, and changes to future arrangements for the adoption of Regional Spatial Strategies. HBF will be seeking an early meeting with the new Housing Minister. A full list of the new Cabinet and other changes is set out below. There may yet be further changes in junior ministerial positions and we will let you know of any that bear on matters of interest to the industry. -
Has TV Eaten Itself? RTS STUDENT TELEVISION AWARDS 2014 5 JUNE 1:00Pm BFI Southbank, London SE1 8XT
May 2015 Has TV eaten itself? RTS STUDENT TELEVISION AWARDS 2014 5 JUNE 1:00pm BFI Southbank, London SE1 8XT Hosted by Romesh Ranganathan. Nominated films and highlights of the awards ceremony will be broadcast by Sky www.rts.org.uk Journal of The Royal Television Society May 2015 l Volume 52/5 From the CEO The general election are 16-18 September. I am very proud I’d like to thank everyone who has dominated the to say that we have assembled a made the recent, sold-out RTS Futures national news agenda world-class line-up of speakers. evening, “I made it in… digital”, such a for much of the year. They include: Michael Lombardo, success. A full report starts on page 23. This month, the RTS President of Programming at HBO; Are you a fan of Episodes, Googlebox hosts a debate in Sharon White, CEO of Ofcom; David or W1A? Well, who isn’t? This month’s which two of televi- Abraham, CEO at Channel 4; Viacom cover story by Stefan Stern takes a sion’s most experienced anchor men President and CEO Philippe Dauman; perceptive look at how television give an insider’s view of what really Josh Sapan, President and CEO of can’t stop making TV about TV. It’s happened in the political arena. AMC Networks; and David Zaslav, a must-read. Jeremy Paxman and Alastair Stew- President and CEO of Discovery So, too, is Richard Sambrook’s TV art are in conversation with Steve Communications. Diary, which provides some incisive Hewlett at a not-to-be missed Leg- Next month sees the 20th RTS and timely analysis of the election ends’ Lunch on 19 May. -
Donald Trump V Piers Morgan Proves the Political Interview Is a Dying Art
Donald Trump v Piers Morgan proves the political interview is a dying art It's become about entertainment and not holding power to account Piers Morgan's much-trailed interview with Donald Trump (Image: ITV) Want to keep up to date on Welsh politics? When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy Noticeexplains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice Invalid Email Piers Morgan’s much-trumpeted (and subsequently much-criticised) recent interview with Donald Trump was remarkable for a number of reasons. In the first place, it represented the first time that the President had been interviewed on British television and for that reason alone the meeting was greatly anticipated. That said, given the closeness of the relationship between Trump and Morgan, it’s true to say that no-one was seriously expecting the interview be anything other than the festival of flattery that it turned out to be. Trump was, as usual, triumphalist, vague, self-congratulatory and repetitive. He is clearly not a man enamoured with the finer details of policy, diplomacy, strategy or finesse. Morgan’s chummy approach played to his friend’s obvious skills. When the topics did veer into territory which should have been explored in greater depth, such as climate change, Morgan failed to challenge any of Trump’s more sim- plistic and dangerous assertions. -
James Harding (PDF)
Society of Editors speech – 11 November 2014 What we’re up to – and what we’re up for. Good morning, there was an item on PM a few weeks ago in which Eddie Mair asked the audience what the collective noun for spies should be. My favourite suggestion was a mince – a mince of spies. And, as I was coming here, I was wondering what the collective noun for editors might be. A bar of editors? A quarrel of editors? Then I remembered what I would have said as a reporter – and, no doubt, our newsrooms would generally agree - a surfeit of editors. Anyway, this is a roundabout way of saying that, whether you’ve got me here as a former member of the best club in the country or as a fellow traveller who’s now down on his luck and ended up in the broadcasting business, it is great to be amongst the Society of Editors and I’m extremely grateful to Bob for inviting me. Thank you. Before I get going, I know people are interested in what’s happening on the Panorama on Mazher Mahmood: This is a seriously good piece of work, extremely revealing and squarely in the public interest. But the worst of all worlds is when you get the big picture right, and trip up over a detail. So when some information we'd been asking to see for many days was sent to us by Mazher Mahmood's lawyers at seven o'clock last night, we, as a responsible broadcaster, had to consider it. -
General Election 2015 Report to National Executive Committee 24Th March 2015 Harriet Harman QC MP
Woman to Woman Campaign Tour - General Election 2015 Report to National Executive Committee 24th March 2015 Harriet Harman QC MP @HarrietHarman | #pinkbus1 | #Labour4women Table of Contents Labour’s Woman to Woman Campaign….…….……..…3 65 Constituencies Visited to Date……………………….….5 Meeting Women in Many Different Settings…….….…7 Woman to Woman Campaign Literature…….………….8 Woman to Woman Digital Campaign……………..……..10 Saturation National and Local Media Coverage……..13 Key Campaigners……………………………………………….....14 Women Trade Unionists…………..……………………….....16 The #Pinkbus tour has been made possible by enormous support from the Party and I would like to thank Iain McNicol and his team particularly Emilie Oldknow, Emma Meehan and her team, the Regional offices, the local and national Press teams, Kat Segal and the digital team, Caroline Adams, Anouska Gregorek, Beth Gardiner-Smith and my own team particularly Ayesha Hazarika, Sophie Wingfield, Clare Gosbee, Hannah Lazell and Matt Price. 2 Labour’s Woman to Woman Campaign Labour's Woman to Woman campaign is the biggest ever women's campaign to reach out to women across the country ahead of May's General Election - particularly the 9 million women who did not vote in 2010. With the famous Pink Bus, the Woman to Woman campaign has visited 65 constituencies and will be campaigning up to Election Day in every English Region, in Wales and Scotland. Women from across Labour's team - including Shadow Cabinet members, MPs, councillors, MEPs, peers, AMs, MSPs and members of the GLA as well as from our affiliated trade unions - have joined the Woman to Woman tour. We have been highlighting all of Labour's key policies on the NHS, on the economy, on housing, education and immigration - but also issues of childcare, equal pay, tackling domestic violence, older women and women's representation.