Posts Tagged ‘Ben Bradshaw’

Quote of the day

“Another wholly feeble and biased Today programme rounded off with a fawning interview with a Tory pundit!!”
- a tweet from Ben Bradshaw, Culture Secretary, who used Twitter to criticise Radio 4 and also alleged in an earlier post that an interview with Michael Gove on Monday’s Today programme was “feeble”.  This morning, Evan Davis conducted an interview [...]

Time to slash funding for the Arts?

Dear Ben Bradshaw,
As if the meltdown of the national college building programme wasn’t sufficient humiliation for Labour, the Guardian now has the story of the £100 million black hole that has been discovered in the budget of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), putting funding for some of the most prestigious cultural projects [...]

Embyro bill opens up new field of debate

Dear Ben Bradshaw,
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill is not quite as straightforward as you might think.  As an atheist myself, I’m very much in support of using science to better people’s lives within certain boundaries.  But if the newspapers are correct in saying that this Bill will allow the creation of hybrid human-animal embryos, we are [...]