[Tubby Isaacs]

Nadhim Zahawi appointed UK vaccine minister

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Nadhim Zahawi appointed UK vaccine minister

We're fucked.

[Boiler]

Could have been worse - it could have been Grayling.

[Boiler]

[Tubby Isaacs]

Former Tory leader in the Lords, installed as head of the Charity Commission despite the Select Committee not wanting her, Baroness Stowell tells charities to drop the politics and "culture wars". Absurd.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Oliver Dowden working away at the real issues.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... ver-dowden

The culture secretary plans to write to Netflix and request a “health warning” is played before The Crown so viewers are aware that the historical drama is a work of fiction, he said in an intervention that prompted criticism.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

This is in response to manufactured outrage in the Mail, is it not?

I know Dowden is an utter lightweight, but we haven't seen this level of grovel for a while.

[youngian]

so viewers are aware that the historical drama is a work of fiction

There’s a clue in the word drama

[Boiler]

Made in Dowden's own constituency, no less...

[Tubby Isaacs]

This is in response to manufactured outrage in the Mail, is it not?

I know Dowden is an utter lightweight, but we haven't seen this level of grovel for a while.

He can do worse than this.

He rang up Google because somebody did an image search from which Winston Churchill was missing.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Looking up Dowden on wiki. He seems to have worked 2 years in PR and 9 years at the Conservative Research Department, then 5 years as an MP.

No wonder that the Labour Party is losing heartlands when it's up against that sort of CV.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

You only have to see one interview with him.

No hinterland, no bottom.

[Andy McDandy]

He also issued a "shame if something happened" warning to the National Trust over murky history.

Short version: history is complex, things done in past we should be ashamed of, no sense in whitewashing things, with that in mind anyone mentions slavery and I'll cut your funding off.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Did you see Alice Roberts' programme on Plymouth last night? An absolute object lesson in how we assess our history. I expect there will be complaints from the Mail - in fact I think there have been over her description of John Hawkins as a slave trader. Which he was, no question, but hey, revisionism...

[mattomac]

Former Tory leader in the Lords, installed as head of the Charity Commission despite the Select Committee not wanting her, Baroness Stowell tells charities to drop the politics and "culture wars". Absurd.

Considering Students’ unions are charities I am concerned.

As for Dowden, complete lightweight, what next a nuisance approach to the poverty in Dickens? Surprised he has gone after Doctor Who.