Dowden out, Dorries in: Is UK data protection in safe hands? Nadine Dorries is the latest government minister charged with steering the data protection law through the choppy straits between the UK's desire to unleash "data's power across the economy and society for the benefit of British citizens and British businesses", and the boring need to comply with EU data protection law. A …
Not sure who Dowden was.
I suppose not quite as bad as spider man, I think Mr Yougov has that job now.
Raaaab moved somewhere as well.
To be honest the current lot are a complete shower. From Liar from the bus down.
Not many decent ones left and a lot of those are ex military.
Our previous PM also shows them up.
"Good women are beautiful. Bad women aren’t. And men will do anything for a Guinness and a potato. Our writer loses herself in the blarney-filled world of the new culture secretary’s oeuvre"...
In defence of Nadine Dorries from a tech-competence level, she was the only person that could bully Openreach into providing broadband to my recording studio in rural Bedfordshire.
I'd exhausted all other routes (& alternatives...satellite broadband etc), so in desperation 'wrote to my M.P'.
To my astonishment (after years of trying myself with no success), Openreach duly dug-up the road & seemed genuinely in fear of Ms Dorries.
Nice work.
No, irrespective of whoever's in charge of the department of culture media. When a government's entire raison d''etre is getting out from under a regulatory regime which seeks to protect citizens' rights none of its party can be trusted with data protection.
"getting out from under a regulatory regime which seeks to protect citizens' rights"
Years ago, the EEC promised faithfully it had no intention of trying to supersede any member state's own national government. You could argue that the EU, which evolved from the EEC without all that tedious having to ask the various nations if they really wanted the change, is entirely different and so not bound by previous promises, but you should also remember that the EEC *and* the EU both faithfully promised they had no interest in forming a central European Army.
Then, a few years after Maastricht, the French President had a really great idea - wouldn't it be wonderful if there was some central High Command that had effective control over the armed forces of all the EU's member states? This was such a good idea that the German Chancellor endorsed it. Other people were not impressed and the idea was forgotten.
Then, a couple of years ago, Angela Merkel had this really great idea - wouldn't it be wonderful if there was some central High Command that had effective control over the armed forces of all the EU's member states? Leaders of other states, perhaps remembering times when Germany has had similar thoughts in the past, were not impressed (except the French president who thought it was a great idea) and the idea was soon forgotten.
Was it last week or the week before that Macron had this really cool idea in the wake of the American debacle in Afghanistan, wouldn't it be good if the EU had a centralized command structure so all the EU's member states could coordinate their activites...
EU Flag, EU Prime Minister, EU "National" Anthem. Fair enough.
Central European Army, run by Brussels? EU, EU uber alles? Maybe not.
It reminds me of Alice... Dorries and Culchur
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean- neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master-that's all."
Ended with Chippendale
- he of the eponymous wooden furniture
and of course the male dance troupe - they obviously had talent or something to make women of a certain age go crazy.
As for Boris' Cabinet of the talented crème de la crème of the Tory party - they are as wooden as one of Mr Chippendale's pieces of furniture
So, in all the potential candidates for the DCMS job, Boris couldn’t find someone that could a) use a computer and b) has shown they have some clue about Culture or the Media?
Still, I do think the only member of the government who has shown he is competent is Rishi Sunak , and even he isn’t really suitable, imo.
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