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Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. A brand new Government report has landed. Same old, same old? We think not!The Report into British Film and High-End Television has been published by UK House of Commons' Culture, Media and Sport Committee. At more then 100 pages, it's not a quick read, so we've gone in first for you.We focus in on what it says about IP and the impact of AI, picking through our highlights of the Report's conclusions and recommendations.Listen to find out what Marcus finds gobsmacking, what made Annette punch the air and why we give Mathilde a standing ovation...The report can be found here: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cmselect/cmcumeds/328/report.html

Conservative MP, Dame Caroline Dinenage is the Chair of the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee. We discuss the upcoming debates around the renewal of the BBC's charter, the crucial issues of the corporation's funding, impartiality, and role in public service broadcasting, as well as the future of the BBC World Service and the Greg Wallace revelations. “We're entering a winter period when there's a number of pensioners who've just had their winter fuel tax removed, when energy prices are rising because the energy fuel cap has come to end, and to suddenly find that you've your licence fee's going up as well. I just thought the timing was unfortunate.” Listen to all our episodes here: https://podfollow.com/beebwatch/view To support our journalism and receive a weekly blog sign up now for £1.99 per month (NB we only charge for one creation per month): www.patreon.com/BeebWatch/membership Or if you'd rather make a one-off payment (which doesn't entitle you to the blog) please use our crowdfunding page:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/roger-boltons-beeb-watch-podcast Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Working Hard is a Talent in itself" says Laurent Carol, Deputy Technical Director of the Luxembourg Olympic and Sport Committee, and former Olympic swimmer. In the first of two shows on the Olympics, my guests this week are: - Laurent Carnol - Deputy Technical Director, Luxembourg Olympic and Sport Committee; Comité Olympique et Sportif Luxembourgeois (COSL), former Olympic swimmer - Dr Yves Dominicy - Sport Statistician - Loïc Hoscheit - ALAD Director - anti-doping agency Luxembour - Marie Muller - former Olympic athlete - Judo Laurent Carnol is the Deputy Technical Director of the Luxembourg Olympic and Sport Committee; Comité Olympique et Sportif Luxembourgeois (COSL), and a former Olympian swimmer himself. Laurent took part in Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016. In London, Laurent got to the semi finals in 200m breaststroke and was a finalist several times in the European Championships for the same event. Aside from his own successful career as an elite athlete, Laurent was a teacher at the Sport Lycée in Luxembourg, a lecturer at Lunex University and Dual Career Coordinator at the Luxembourg Institute for High Performance in Sport. Laurent talks to us about the selection process which decides what delegation will eventually be going to the Olympics in Paris this summer. The qualification pathways and athlete preparation requires enormous effort not just from the athlete themselves, but also from the team around that athlete.   Yves Dominicy is a sport statistician and has written two books with Christophe Ley:   Science meets Sports: when statistics are more than numbers Statistics Meets Sports: What We Can Learn from Sports Data Sport analytics collects data to try to understand patterns therein. For instance, it is used for ranking and prediction, talent identification, scheduling and injury prevention. Machine learning is now being used in tennis to profile the emotional expressions of tennis players and link that to performance. Yves also mentions that tennis rankings may become more accurate if based on serve / return etc. rather than points. During Covid-19 in 2020, the International Swimming League organised a whole month of races providing an intense, short period to analyse the effect of multiple races on the performance of different profiles. The use of data analytics is extremely valuable to prevent injury. It is now possible to run risk profiles to plan around potential injury points for a person. Loïc Hoscheit is the Director of ALAD, Agence Luxembourgeoise antidopage. Luxembourg's independent anti-doping agency tasked with supervising the country's most high-level athletes and competitions; they are tasked with ensuring Luxembourg sends out clean athletes. ALAD also offers guidance to all athletes with the potential to qualify for the Olympics and ensures a solid testing programme is carried out prior to the Games within this group. The rules are complex, and keep changing. Naturally there is often a cloud of uncertainty around medication, but also supplements. Marie Müller, a judoka (judo player), received a wild card from the IOC in 2008 where she finished 9th in the Beijing Games. Between 2009 and 2012, Marie entered the world top 16 for judo in her category and qualified for the London Games in 2012. There she lost in a dramatic fight for bronze and finished 5th.Marie's entire career was overshadowed by injury, which ultimately made the decision to retire from judo for her in 2016. Marie and Laurent both talk about not being able to do their sport since they retired, but have turned to other sport.  Marie also talks about the pressure of weight in her sport. https://teamletzebuerg.lu/ https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-5856-4 https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-9273-5 https://www.alad.lu/

Mark Davyd, CEO of the Music Venue Trust joins to talk to us about what the cross party Culture, Media and Sport Committee report means for independent music in the UK and why it's a potential game changer

On today's show, Isabel Vaughan-Spruce discusses her pro-life advocacy and recent testimony to the Scottish Parliament's Health, Social Care and Sport Committee. GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Alex Newman is the CEO of Liberty Sentinel Media, an award-winning international journalist, educator, author, and consultant. He specializes in topics such as indoctrination, censorship, and the total dominance of mankind, as well as the WHO pandemic treaty. Alex has contributed to various publications in the United States and abroad, including The Epoch Times, WND (World Net Daily), FreedomProject Media, The New American magazine, and the Law Enforcement Intelligence Brief. He has authored/co-authored several books and serves as a director for multiple organizations dedicated to faith, family, and freedom. Alex has also been involved in various campaigns, from political campaigns for Congress to marketing campaigns for non-profit groups and international businesses. You can find him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/alexnewman_jou and learn more about Liberty Sentinel Media at https://libertysentinel.org/. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Isabel Vaughan-Spruce has been praying outside abortion centres and offering help to women/couples there for around twenty years, supporting many of them in continuing their pregnancy. She has been Campaign Director for 40 Days for Life in Birmingham, England for around 12 years and Co-director of March for Life UK for ten years which she founded with her colleagues Ben and Sarah Thatcher. Isabel has been arrested twice for silently praying near an abortion centre.

Chris Cooke and Andy Malt discuss the UK Parliament's Culture, Media and Sport Committee recommending that the government implement a levy on ticket sales for large scale shows and cut VAT for grassroots music venues, and the concerns surrounding the launch of a new SXSW festival in London.  SECTION TIMES 01: Grassroots venues report (00:06:50) 02: News in brief (00:14:18) 03: SXSW London (00:17:38) (Timings may be slightly different due to adverts) THIS WEEK'S MAIN STORIES • SXSW London could disrupt delicately balanced music ecosystem and should reconsider its date NEWS IN BRIEF • TikTok sues the US government over sell-or-be-banned law • Goldman Sachs analysts upbeat about music industry after a “turning point” year • Lucian's lunch money under threat as shareholder pressure mounts over “excessive” pay packet • Nine of the ten wrongful death Astroworld lawsuits now settled, says Live Nation • OfCom should use Online Safety Act powers to force Facebook to act on ticket scams, says Which? • Music Venue Properties announces purchase of The Ferret in Preston • Apple finds out the hard way that not everyone thinks destruction is a form of creation

On today's show, Isabel Vaughan-Spruce discusses her pro-life advocacy and recent testimony to the Scottish Parliament's Health, Social Care and Sport Committee. Later, Andreas Michli talks to David about running for London Mayor 2024 GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Isabel Vaughan-Spruce has been praying outside abortion centres and offering help to women/couples there for around twenty years, supporting many of them in continuing their pregnancy. She has been Campaign Director for 40 Days for Life in Birmingham, England for around 12 years and Co-director of March for Life UK for ten years which she founded with her colleagues Ben and Sarah Thatcher. Isabel has been arrested twice for silently praying near an abortion centre. https://www.marchforlife.co.uk/ GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Andreas Michli is an Independent London Mayor Candidate.

Judgy and Millsy discuss the Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee asking for the minutes from board meeting when the Premier League decided to adopt the punishment that led to Everton being given a 10-point penalty and put them at risk of a second points deduction this season.

Gavin Cooney, Sports Writer with The42; Lisa Chambers, Fianna Fáil Senator; Martin Kenny, Sinn Féin TD for Sligo-Leitrim; Verona Murphy, Independent TD for Wexford; Gabija Gataveckaite, Political Reporter with the Irish Independent

The British Museum, in London, recently announced plans to make digital copies of all the objects it keeps. The museum said in August that about 2,000 items had been stolen or were missing.伦敦大英博物馆最近宣布计划为其保存的所有藏品制作数字副本。 该博物馆 8 月表示，约有 2,000 件物品被盗或失踪。The museum is one of the busiest in the world.该博物馆是世界上最繁忙的博物馆之一。It holds objects such as the Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon Marbles — known as the Elgin Marbles — and ancient stones and jewelry.它拥有罗塞塔石碑、帕台农神庙大理石浮雕（称为埃尔金大理石浮雕）等物品以及古代宝石和珠宝。The leader, or chair of the museum, is George Osborne. He recently told the Culture, Media and Sport Committee of Parliament that he believed a person who worked at the museum was responsible.博物馆的领导者或主席是乔治·奥斯本。 他最近告诉议会文化、媒体和体育委员会，他相信博物馆工作人员应对此事负责。Osborne called it “an inside job by someone…who the museum had put trust in.” He said the person took items from the museum little by little.奥斯本称其为“博物馆信任的某人的内部工作”。 他说，这个人一点一点地从博物馆拿走了物品。The museum's director at the time was German art historian Hartwig Fischer. Fischer left the job in August after serving since 2016. He said the blame for the thefts “must ultimately” rest with him. He added the museum did not react as it should have when concerns first came up that someone had been stealing.当时的博物馆馆长是德国艺术史学家哈特维格·费舍尔。 费舍尔自 2016 年开始任职后，于 8 月离职。他表示，盗窃事件的责任“最终必须”由他承担。 他补充说，当人们第一次担心有人偷窃时，博物馆并没有做出应有的反应。“There are lots of lessons to be learned,” Osborne said.“有很多教训需要吸取，”奥斯本说。The museum head said about 350 of the 2,000 items have been found and are in the process of being returned.博物馆负责人表示，2000 件藏品中约有 350 件已找到，正在归还过程中。Stolen items included gold rings, earrings and other jewelry from the ancient Greek and Roman times.被盗物品包括金戒指、耳环和其他古希腊和罗马时代的珠宝。The director of the museum for the time being is Mark Jones. He said the museum is confident “that a theft of this kind can never happen again.” Jones added that one way to improve the museum's security is to show more items to the public instead of, as he said, “simply by locking items away.”博物馆目前的馆长是马克·琼斯。 他表示，博物馆有信心“此类盗窃行为永远不会再发生”。 琼斯补充说，提高博物馆安全性的一种方法是向公众展示更多物品，而不是像他所说的那样“简单地把物品锁起来”。The project to digitize about 8 million items will take five years.将约 800 万件物品数字化的项目将耗时五年。In September, the museum asked for help in finding the missing items. The organization launched a phone number for people to call if they had information.九月，博物馆请求帮助寻找失踪的物品。 该组织推出了一个电话号码，供人们在有信息时拨打。

A few months ago, Sarah de Lagarde came on Woman's Hour to share her incredible story of survival. She had fallen on to the Tube tracks at a north London station and was run over by two Tube trains. She lost her right arm and leg as a result. Today, Sarah returns with a newly fitted bionic arm, made possible with the support of a crowdfunding campaign. She speaks to Hayley about her recovery journey. As England's Lionesses face Nigeria in the knock out stages of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, Hayley Hasssall is joined by BBC sports reporters Mimi Fawaz and Anna Thompson to discuss all the action. MPs are warning that the use of smart technology and connected devices in facilitating domestic abuse is becoming a growing problem. The Culture, Media and Sport Committee has found that smart products in the home are being used to 'monitor, harass, coerce and control' victims. Committee Chair and Conservative MP Dame Caroline Dinenage joins Hayley. Priya Hall decided to use her experience of trying to start a family within a same-sex couple as the basis for her stand-up comedy debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She speaks to Hayley about the unfairness that same-sex couples face when it comes to accessing fertility treatment. With the blessing of creator Ian Fleming's estate, the latest literary instalment of James Bond is based in a modern world, and written by a woman. Hayley speaks to author Kim Sherwood on her experience of writing for the iconic series.

To learn more: 18 April 2023 UK Parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee regarding NFTs and the blockchain,  Emily Gould's correspondence following the hearing on several issues touched on by the Committee; and NFT-related posts on the IAL Blog.Show Notes:1:15 Beeple sold ”Everydays — The First 5000 Days” for $69 million2:45 The Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report 3:00 current global art market valued at 67.8 billion3:15 current art-related NFTs valued at $1.5 billion3:50 collectibles-related NFTs valued at 11.8 billion5:00 Parliamentary  committee 5:50 NFT life cycle6:40 NFT defined10:50 Distributed Ledger Technology12:20 Ethereum 14:20 Web 1-315:50 Metaverse 16:50 holograms17:35 stakeholders22:50 resale royalty right24:00 NFTs taken off chain will break royalty under smart contract27:15 Flipkick - NFT authentication service 27:25 Artclear -  NFT authentication service 28:00  blockchain and provenance30:40 fractional ownership31:40 DAOs 32:40 fractional.art 32:55 Artsect Gallery34:50 Copyright infringement 37:00 licensing  37:40 Injective Protocol purchased/burnt Banksy's Morons (White)38:50 Daystorm posted NFT of Basquiat for sale along with IP rights39:30 TM infringement - MetaBirkin NFTs40:30 commercial risks 41:00 NFT platform liability and disclaimers42:00 EU copyright directive 42:25 Soleymani v. Nifty Gateway44:10 UK consumer rights act protection for Soleymani 44:30 illicit activity - theft of NFTs or unauthorized minting of NFTs44:45 ex-OpenSea employee convicted of fraud/money laundering 45:15 Osbourne v Opensea & Tulip Trading Limited v Bitcoin45:30 property status of NFTs 46:00 money laundering46:25 financial risks48:00 tax & estate planning48:15 environmental concerns50:00 Whitworth Gallery's Ancient of Days 51:10 Vacant-To-Visual Program  52:40  Hirst's Currency project 54:05 Alan Robertshaw54:30 Currency project results slightly favored physical works over NFT55:45 Hirst's The Beautiful Paintings project 56:35 international body 57:20 Robershaw 58:40 conflict between smart contracts and natural term licensing1:00:30 Robertshaw 1:01:10 transaction time1:02:20 "trustless" system actually requires trustPlease share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.comTo hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.To view rewards for supporting the podcast, please visit Warfare's Patreon page.To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com. Thanks so much for listening!© Stephanie Drawdy [2023]

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Sirin Kale and Pandora Sykes look at how one of TV's most popular shows became mired in tragedy and controversy. Where did it all go wrong? And is this the end for reality TV? Featuring interviews with Megan Barton-Hanson, Dr Alex George, Jake Cornish, Rachel Finni and many more. Producer: Hannah Hufford Executive Producer: Pandora Sykes Executive Editor: James Cook Content Producer: Hannah Robins Technical Producer: Giles AspenArchive credits: The Victoria Derbyshire Show, BBC Love Island, ITV Studios/Lifted Entertainment/Motion Content Group This Morning, Granada Television Caroline Flack: Her Life and Death, Curious Films 1Xtra Talks with Richie Brave, BBC Sophie Gradon On Internet Trolls, Radio Aire Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee meeting 14 September 2021, Parliamentary Recording Unit The Great British Bake Off, Love Productions The Voice, Wall to Wall Big Brother, Endemol UK

With Gillian Martin MSP and AIM activists Fatima Joji and Theo Forbes. Drew sits down with Aberdeen Independence Movement organisers Fatima Joji, Theo Forbes and North East MSP Gillian Martin in this Yes Places series episode of Scotland's Choice. The guests share their views on the opportunities ahead for Scotland as an independent nation, and we hear more about their thoughts on the work ahead of us to pave the way for a future Yes Vote. Theo, Fatima, and other grassroots activists set up the Aberdeen Independence Movement (AIM) to do just this. It is great to hear them talk passionately about how the local independence movement works together to help shape the debate and encourage positive change campaigning. While Gillian offers some fantastic insights into how the work of the Scottish Parliament is shaping the views of the independence debate on the world stage. Naturally, with both Gillian and Fatima's extensive work on women for independence, Drew discusses with them the impacts of policies like Scotland's world-leading legislation to tackle period poverty and the effects of Westminster policies on women and the independence movement. In this Yes Places episode, Gillian, Theo and Fatima all touch on the unique challenges people living in the North-East face, including the opportunities that lie ahead for the region, the difficulties the area faces and what this means for support for independence. Theo and Fatima also get us all caught up on the forthcoming Aberdeen Independence Movement (AIM) conference, which seems like an event not to be missed. We hope it is the first of many independence movement events to come. Theo is founding member of the Aberdeen Independence Movement (AIM) which you can find more on here. Fatima is the Co-Chair of AIM and is a Director of @5050parliament. Follow AIM on Twitter here. Gillian Martin has been the MSP for Aberdeenshire East since 2016 and is Convenor of Health, Social Care and Sport Committee in Scottish Parliament. You can find more about Gillian's work on her website here and follow her on Twitter here.

The government should limit public funding for cricket unless there is "continuous, demonstrable progress" on eradicating "deep-seated racism", a parliamentary report has recommended. The report by the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee also praises the former Yorkshire player Azeem Rafiq, who spoke about the abuse he suffered in November. Today's Martha Kearney speaks to Julian Knight, a Conservative MP who chairs the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, and Richard Thompson, chairman of Surrey Cricket. Also reflecting on the report is Azeem Rafiq himself.

A glimmer of hope for the naming of new Ipswich CBD tenants and a cinema operator with confirmation expected by the end of this year. Leichhardt pool temperature decision delayed after a report tabled this month, prompted by a resident who addressed a council meeting in August and still no final decision on additional offices for councillors. Stream now for highlights from the Ipswich Central Redevelopment Committee, Growth Infrastructure and Waste Committee and Community Culture Arts and Sport Committee. Published: 3 December 2021. Music: www.purple-planet.com Image: Pixabay Gerd Altmann Council meeting agendas and minutes: bit.ly/2JlrVKY Council meetings on YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/IpswichCityCouncilTV Current and future council works and projects: maps.ipswich.qld.gov.au/civicprojects Ipswich Civic Centre: www.ipswichciviccentre.com.au/ Discover Ipswich: www.discoveripswich.com.au/ Ipswich Art Gallery: www.ipswichartgallery.qld.gov.au/ Studio 188: www.studio188.com.au/ Nicholas Street Precinct: www.nicholasst.com.au/

In another week when state parliament was dominated by Covid Ipswich MP Jennifer Howard joins the show. Ipswich Central Redevelopment Committee told the hope of a CBD cinema is still alive but details remain confidential, and a report on milestones reached under council's Indigenous Accord presented to the Community, Culture, Arts and Sport Committee. Published: 4 September 2021. Music: www.purple-planet.com Image: Ipswich City Emergency Service Unit local controller Emilea K. Salonen, mayor Teresa Harding, state member for Ipswich Jennifer Howard and councillor Kate Kunzelmann (supplied) Nicholas Street Precinct: www.nicholasst.com.au/ Council agendas and minutes: bit.ly/2JlrVKY Council meetings on YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/IpswichCityCouncilTV Current and future council works and projects: maps.ipswich.qld.gov.au/civicprojects Ipswich Civic Centre: www.ipswichciviccentre.com.au/ Discover Ipswich: www.discoveripswich.com.au/ Ipswich Art Gallery: www.ipswichartgallery.qld.gov.au/ Studio 188: www.studio188.com.au/

After more than a year of many of us working from home during the pandemic, there's been a lot of talk about the lack of requirement to put on a bra. Just this week actor Gillian Anderson announced that her relationship with bras is over. Joanna Wakefield-Scurr, Professor in Biomechanics at University of Portsmouth talks to Emma about the pros and cons of not wearing a bra. Social media influencers who document their lifestyles receive daily online abuse which increases when they promote products and make money. Instagram influencer Em Sheldon spoke to MPs on the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee yesterday about the trolling she receives which she claimed comes predominantly from adult women. Em joins Emma to discuss what should or could be done. It's been confirmed that from next Monday 19 July all COVID requirements, including mandatory face masks and social distancing, will be lifted in England. But for more than one million of the most vulnerable people, shielding will continue. How are women across the country planning to cope? And what difference – if any – will so-called Freedom Day bring? Lucy Catchpole is a disability writer and has two young children. Mary Slattery is a disability advocate and artist. Sarah Clarke has two teenage children with disabilities. Why would you want to tell all about the ending of a painful marriage that happened 30 years ago? Emma speaks to Anne Theroux about her marriage to the writer Paul Theroux. She's written The Year of the End A Memoir of Marriage, Truth and Fiction.

What is social care and how is it delivered? The Health and Sport Committee heard from the Director of the Coalition of Care & Support Providers in Scotland, Annie Gunner Logan, as part of their Inquiry into social care during the pandemic. If you would like to find out more about the Committee's work on social care, please visit https://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/CurrentCommittees/113970.aspx   Transcript of the session from the Parliament's Official Report: Hello, and thank you for the invitation to join the discussion this morning. I am very pleased to be here for this session. This is a pivotal time for social care, and I thank members for their continuing and enduring interest and attention. I have not given you a fresh paper today, because the paper that we originally submitted back in February is still valid. I went back to it in June and wondered whether any of it would be relevant after Covid, and then I realised that not only is it still relevant, it is now hyper-relevant. I will pull out the key parts of that, with particular emphasis on the bits about commissioning and procurement—because they are of interest to the committee—and then I will talk about how things could be different. First, I want to say something about what social care in the third sector is, what it does and why it matters; our paper goes into that a little bit. Social care in the third sector is not a service like other public services. We do not cure people, deliver their babies, put their fires out, bring them to justice or get them educated and qualified. We do not generally wear uniforms, and you will not see us in television drama series on Saturday nights. What we do is get alongside people when they have very significant challenges in their lives and struggle to participate in society as full citizens, and we support them, wherever possible, to make their own decisions and move their life forward as best they can. Where the world makes it very difficult for people to do that because of their age, impairment or whatever, we do what we can to help by ensuring that they are comfortable, are cared for and can have at least some kind of independence and peace of mind in their individual circumstances. When you look at what third sector care and support organisations say that they are all about, you do not find much about services; rather, you find things such as, “Our vision is for the people we work with to live meaningful and independent lives in a world which supports them to achieve their own ambitions”; “Our mission is to enable everyone to live a valued life—the life they choose”; and “Your way to a brighter future”. The shortest statement that I could find among our membership is simply: “We support good lives”. It is hard to capture and summarise those organisations' work, partly because what they do to support people in practice will vary according to individual need and preference. That work is not seen as particularly exciting, sexy or critical—certainly not to TV producers on a Saturday night. To have to live without it, however, leads to huge stress and distress for people and when that work becomes the focus of attention, as it has during the pandemic, everybody finds out how important it is. Over time, a substantial architecture of legislation overlaid that basic proposition of a supportive relationship for people with challenges in their lives. The foundations in modern times were the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 and the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970—I am getting a bit anoraky already—both of which conferred very important rights on people with care and support needs as well as duties on public bodies to meet them. The National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 introduced the market to social care and, since 1999, the Scottish Parliament has introduced a significant range of additional legislation that refined, revised and modified all those acts. Over time, we have also codified that basic proposition of a supportive relationship into a set of categories—home care, housing support, care at home, day services, respite and so on—and a set of tasks, generally to serve budgetary and monitoring requirements. Probably similarly to Eddie Fraser, I am long enough in the tooth to have been in front of a predecessor committee, during which we took a lot of time to identify what personal care might be and how it differs from any other kind of care—simply because we had put ourselves in the position of considering making some of it free but not all, so we had to codify what was free and what was not. Over time, that codification has infiltrated our system to the extent that an awful lot of the supportive relationship that we have with people is now pre-specified as those categories and tasks—the latter often precisely timed, down to 15 minutes in some cases—in detailed contractual arrangements, again primarily for budgetary and monitoring purposes. The risk is that those arrangements, rather than what people want and need, should now be described as social care. I echo some of what Eddie has said: we can help someone use the toilet, but we cannot run an errand for them; we can help them get dressed, but we cannot clean out the fridge—even if the errand, or the fridge, is what is really important to them. That is what people mean when they say that social care has become service led, rather than person centred, which is what we all want it to be. I encourage the committee to see care and support not as a service but as a vehicle through which people who face all sorts of challenges can live their lives alongside those of us who are fortunate enough not to face those challenges. Eddie is absolutely right to say that it is a rights-based issue. That thought is not original in any way and the independent living movement has put it far better than me. Committee members have probably already been referred to Inclusion Scotland's “Our shared ambition for the future of social care support in Scotland”—I would highly recommend it if you have not. The paper that we submitted back in February sets out what we think are the key ingredients for making a success of all that: the right policy framework, the right workforce, good critical challenge—we were clear in our paper that there is not enough of that—a diverse range of providers, appropriate use of digital technology, and so on. I am happy to go into any and all of that, but I will not repeat it all again today. I want to say something about commissioning and procurement, because those are the mechanisms by which the third sector becomes engaged in all those issues. It is worth separating the two. Strategic commissioning is the exercise though which the needs of a population are identified, the desired outcomes for that population are agreed and decisions are made about what kind of care and support needs to be put in place to meet those needs. By its nature, that should be a very collaborative affair. In contrast, procurement is not collaborative—it is competitive. It involves the codification of meeting assessed needs into detailed category and task-based specifications, which are appended to contracts and put out to tender using public procurement processes that are, fundamentally, no different from any other kind of public purchasing mechanism. That is why we find ourselves looking at documents in which groups of disabled people are described as “lots”, and why charities like our members have to bid against each other in order to be awarded a contract to support the people who are grouped into those lots. More often than not—and this is the critical part—such contracts are not underwritten by a financial arrangement that covers the cost of delivering them properly. When up to 80 per cent of a non-residential service is workforce costs, it is clear what will happen when we compete on price. If you ask me—the committee is asking me, which is why I am here—you can trace an enormous number of the critical failures in our social care system, particularly those that have been identified in the past six months, back to that issue. It is the root cause. A good example that has already appeared on the committee's radar is something that we discovered in the pandemic, which is that many care workers, especially in the private sector, receive only statutory sick pay if they have to self-isolate, which is why a fair few kept turning up to work when they should not have done. However, the national care home contract, which was drawn up by the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities and Scotland Excel on behalf of local authorities, does not allow for any more pay. Many care at home contracts that have been drawn up by individual councils do not allow for more sick pay either. It is not just about bad employers; although they undoubtedly exist; it is much more complex than that. The position that is taken by central and local government procurement is that fair work is a matter for social care employers to sort out, so tendering processes need to be sharpened up even further in order to root out the bad employers—that is more or less what the guidance says. However, an awful lot of contract values are simply not sufficient to support much more than statutory minimums and plenty of providers get hauled in by commissioning officers and told to shave more off their price. In any other kind of market, suppliers, which is what many of us have become, would take their business elsewhere, but in publicly funded social care, the public sector is the only purchaser in town. It is the opposite of a monopoly, where there is just one provider; it is a monopsony. Very few charities support self-funders. That is not the business that we are in, so we have only one purchaser. For a hard-pressed public authority, the proposition of being able to control costs because its suppliers have nowhere else to go is initially very attractive. The public authority just lets the market do what it does: the providers compete with one another and bring the price down for the purchasing authority. Eventually, however, the public authority will run out of road, because a price-driven market in a monopsony under severe financial pressure will eventually see the quality providers exit the market. That is what we began to see pre-Covid. So how could things be different? We have been working with our members on some alternatives to a competitive market in social care. We call them our big ideas. Fundamental to those ideas is the actualisation of self-directed support. We never liked competitive tendering much, to be honest, but the introduction of self-directed support is what tipped us over the edge, because we could not see how people could possibly be supported to exercise choice and control on their own behalf in a system in which all the choices about the support available to them had already been made for them by the procurement processes. Those two thoughts cannot be kept in one head at the same time. Sustainability and the appropriate use of resources are also fundamental to our thinking, so we came up with four tests for any alternative to competitive tendering in the market environment. Does it shift power? Does it increase choice and control for individuals? Does it improve accountability and transparency? Does it improve social care sustainability? Having set those tests, off we went. We are still working on our big ideas and at an appropriate moment—very soon, I hope—we will share them with the committee. For now, I can say that they include things such as alliancing, which is a particular type of contracting arrangement in which commissioners and providers collaborate with each other as equal partners in pursuit of a common endeavour, sharing risk and agreeing, rather than competing, on who does what and with what resource. Those ideas include suggestions such as agreeing at a national level a suite of sustainable rates for different kinds of support, which everybody signs up to. Then, if we must have a competition locally, let us have it on quality, not price. When I refer to a sustainable rate, I mean a rate that will cover, and continue to cover, the cost of a properly rewarded and supported workforce, following fair work principles. Those ideas also include a suggestion that we go back to grants, instead of contracts, again to stabilise our organisations and our workforce and, critically, to link the amount of grant, and its conditionality, to the meeting of individual need and outcomes, as required by self-directed support. Therefore, our big ideas are just that: ideas. However, if I may respectfully say so, the national care service is just an idea. These are all half-formed things that have not yet been tried and which need a lot more fleshing out to see how they will work in practice. However, we know enough about what does not work to be able to give at least half a mind to what might work. That is the territory that we now need to enter. We are up for that. I hope that you are up for that. I will stop there and leave more time for discussion.  

Andrew Lloyd Webber told MPs today that the arts are at the "point of no return". Also speaking to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee was Rebecca Kane Burton, chief exec of LW Theatres, who joins us to discuss the crisis, and Lucy Noble, chief exec of the Royal Albert Hall. Will performing venues be saved by the government's recently announced Operation Sleeping Beauty? Andrew O’Hagan’s latest novel, Mayflies, is the story of two young friends in a small Scottish town who spend the summer of 1986 escaping from the world of their fathers and into the freedom of a magical weekend in Manchester. Thirty years after that, one calls the other with devastating news. O’Hagan talks about how the novel was inspired by the joy and sadness of a real-life friendship. A Christopher Hampton adaptation of J G Farrell’s 1978 novel The Singapore Grip starts on Sunday on ITV, starring David Morrissey, Jane Horrocks, Charles Dance and Luke Treadaway. Set in the Second World War it tells of the fortunes of a family of rich rubber planters in the months before and during the Japanese invasion of Singapore. Actor and writer Daniel York Loh reviews. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Timothy Prosser Production Co-ordinator: Lizzie Harris

Parliament's Health and Sport Committee have just released their report into the supply and demand for medicines in Scotland. We spoke with the Convener of the Committee, Lewis Macdonald MSP, to find out more. You can read the full report on the Scottish Parliament website at https://bit.ly/medicines-report  

If you’re anything like me, you probably haven’t ever given much attention to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee: the government select committee that deals with football. Last week, the committee interviewed Rick Parry, the chairman of the English Football League to talk to him about the impact of COVID-19 on the lower tiers of English football. Parry was bullish, attacking the financial structures underpinning the game in Britain. Having eviscerated the whole system, he took more careful aim. If you wanted a culprit for the swingeing inequalities in English football, Parry seemed to be saying, then you could look no further than parachute payments. But what are parachute payments? And why are they so bad? In this episode, we ask: Are parachute payments holding British football back? Guest: Dr Rob Wilson (@DrRob_Wilson), a Football Finance Expert at Sheffield Hallam University. Support Us: https://www.patreon.com/FootballToday Follow Us: @FT_Podcast_ www.FootballTodayPodcast.com

Episode 16 is now live! In spite of being in (splendid) isolation, Michael is back with three special guests, all recording from their homes across the country. We hear from senior Conservative backbencher and former Chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Damian Collins MP; founder of Iconic Labs and co-founder of one of the world's most visited Facebook pages, Unilad, Liam Harrington; and SNP Shadow Secretary for DCMS and renowned journalist and Broadcaster, John Nicolson MP. They discuss infotagion, a fact-checking service designed to tackle the wave of misinformation that has grown out of the coronavirus pandemic co-founded by Damian and Liam and supported by John. Infotagion can be found on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. All three guests are on twitter at @DamianCollins, @MrJohnNicolson and @LiamFHarrington.

We were delighted to be joined by Miles Briggs MSP on the PIP podcast. Miles is a Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party MSP for Lothian. He is involved in quite a number of cross-party committees and notably for pharmacists he a member of the Health and Sport Committee. You can find out more about Mile's voting record, his recent speeches, recent questions that he has asked of the Scottish government and recent motions he has brought forward here. The conservative party in Scotland have created a five-point plan aimed at supporting pharmacy north of the border and this informed a portion of our conversation. Miles was also was good enough to tell me about his background. He was quite candid about how he copes with the day to day rough and tumble of being an MSP. We discussed the thinking behind running the medicines review in Scotland. Miles is involved in this process as a member of the Health and Sport Committee. I asked him about the role of pharmacists in the modern NHS and where he felt the future lies for our profession. We agreed that for the first time in years there are pressures on pharmacy from a workforce perspective. He revealed that he recently asked a question to Jeanne Freeman about how this issue can be addressed and hopefully solved. I asked Miles directly if the Conservative party in Scotland managed to get into power would they invest in community pharmacy. Miles discussed his frustration around the lack of information sharing and particularly told me his strong view that pharmacists should have access to all the patient information that they require. For community pharmacists, this specifically means joined-up information technology and ensuring community pharmacists get access to the patient record. For years community pharmacists have been supporting people who are in recovering from substance misuse. Miles discussed his views in this area and talked about the need to recognise community pharmacists particularly as unsung heroes in this area. We got some insight into the vaccine transformation programme happening across Scotland. Miles is an advocate of community pharmacy extending what they currently deliver in the flu vaccination space but also talked about the need to include pharmacy in the wider discussions on the vaccine transformation programme.

Are loot boxes gambling? What if your gambling commission says they're not? What if the law says they're not? The United Kingdom is seeking answers to all these questions and more with the latest report from their "Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Committee". Speaking out against the UK Gambling Commission, the report's scathing language (and contemporaneous commentary) seeks not to change the law's existing language, but to reinterpret it. The road to hell really is paved with good intentions...in "Virtual" Legality. CHECK OUT THE VIDEO AT: https://youtu.be/9c6Eh76mEJg #UK #Gambling #Lootboxes *** Discussed in this episode: "Oh Hooooooeg, loot boxes are back in the news!" Tweet - September 12, 2019 Joseph La Russa (@Joseph_La_Russa) https://twitter.com/Joseph_La_Russa/status/1172142998550982659 "FIFA Furor! Why the UK may have just stopped Loot Box Bans (VL77) (Hoeg Law)" https://youtu.be/vj053LPu93M "Fifa packs and loot boxes 'not gambling' in UK" BBC News - July 22, 2019 - Zoe Kleinman https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49074003 "Gambling Act 2005" UK Public General Acts (Gaming, Section 6) http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/19/section/6 "UK officials call for loot boxes to be regulated like gambling Engadget - September 12, 2019 - Georgina Torbet https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/12/uk-government-loot-boxes-regulation/ "Immersive and addictive technologies - Summary" UK Parliment Webpage https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmcumeds/1846/184603.htm "Immersive and addictive technologies report published" UK Parliment Webpage https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/digital-culture-media-and-sport-committee/news/immersive-technology-report-17-19/ *** FOR MORE CHECK US OUT: On Twitter @hoeglaw At our website: https://hoeglaw.com/ On our Blog, "Rules of the Game", at https://hoeglaw.wordpress.com/ On "Help Us Out Hoeg!" a regular segment on the Easy Allies Podcast (formerly GameTrailers) (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZrxXp1reP8E353rZsB3jaA)

Questions are being asked today over whether children should be allowed to buy so-called "loot boxes" in computer games. A report by the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, which is chaired by Folkestone and Hythe MP Damian Collins, has raised concerns about youngsters getting involved in betting. Also in today's episode, we speak to a family of eight who are living in a tent after being evicted and government documents reveal the possible impact of a no-deal Brexit. https://www.kentonline.co.uk/

A Kent MP has criticised the use of lie detector tests in reality TV programmes, following the death of a guest who appeared on the Jeremy Kyle Show. Folkestone and Hythe's Damian Collins heads up the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, which has been hearing evidence from ITV bosses in Parliament. The Jeremy Kyle Show was cancelled last month and the host himself declined an invitation to give evidence in Parliament. https://www.kentonline.co.uk/

With the Digital, Culture Media and Sport Committee recently calling for a new independent digital regulator and the government’s Internet Safety Strategy White Paper imminent, it’s a crucial time for digital regulation in the UK. Jacob Ohrvik-Stott discusses where the digital regulation debate is heading and outlines Doteveryone’s proposals for an Office for Responsible Technology. About Jacob Ohrvik-Stott Jacob Ohrvik-Stottis a Researcher at the think-tank Doteveryone, where his work explores digital regulation and the public’s relationship with digital technologies. Prior to joining Doteveryone he worked in energy and climate policy for a global professional engineering body and public engagement, where he ran youth panels, deliberative research and science festivals.

Renée DiResta: How to Fight the Imminent Disinformation Blitzkrieg (Ep. 175) Renée DiResta joined Joe Miller to discuss the ongoing threat of state-sponsored misinformation campaigns on social media designed to destabilize the U.S. government. Bio Renée DiResta (@noUpside) is the Director of Research at New Knowledge and a Mozilla Fellow in Media, Misinformation, and Trust. She investigates the spread of malign narratives across social networks, and assists policymakers in understanding and responding to the problem. She has advised Congress, the State Department, and other academic, civic, and business organizations, and has studied disinformation and computational propaganda in the context of pseudoscience conspiracies, terrorism, and state-sponsored information warfare. Renée regularly writes and speaks about the role that tech platforms and curatorial algorithms play in the proliferation of disinformation and conspiracy theories. She is an Ideas contributor at Wired. Her tech industry writing, analysis, talks, and data visualizations have been featured or covered by numerous media outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fast Company, Politico, TechCrunch, Wired, Slate, Forbes, Buzzfeed, The Economist, Journal of Commerce, and more. She is a 2019 Truman National Security Project security fellow and a Council on Foreign Relations term member. Renée is the author of The Hardware Startup: Building your Product, Business, and Brand, published by O’Reilly Media. Previously, Renée was part of the founding team and ran marketing and business development at Haven, the transportation management technology platform that’s transforming trade logistics for commodity, CPG, and food shippers. Before that, Renée was a Principal at seed-stage venture capital fund O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), where she invested in early technology startups with a focus on hardware, manufacturing, and logistics companies. She spent seven years on Wall Street as an equity derivatives trader and market maker at Jane Street, a top quantitative proprietary trading firm in New York City. Renée has degrees in Computer Science and Political Science from the Honors College at SUNY Stony Brook. She is a 2017 Presidential Leadership Scholar, a Staff Associate at the Columbia University Data Science Institute, a Harvard Berkman-Klein Center affiliate, and is a Founding Advisor to the Center for Humane Technology. She is passionate about STEM education and childhood immunization advocacy, and is one of the co-founders of parent advocacy organization Vaccinate California. For fun, she explores data sets and loves cooking and crafting. Renée and her husband, Justin Hileman, are the parents of two feisty little people. Resources RenéeDiResta.com New Knowledge What We Now Know About Russian Disinformation by Renée DiResta (N.Y. Times, 12/17/18) The Digital Maginot Line by Renée DiResta (RibbonFarm, 11/28/18) She Warned of ‘Peer-to-Peer Misinformation.’ Congress Listened. By Sheera Frenkel (N.Y. Times, 11/12/2017) The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium by Martin Gurri The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook by Niall Ferguson News Roundup Facebook A new British Parliament report is calling for new regulations against Facebook. Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee concluded an 18-month investigation against the social media giant finding it routinely breaks privacy and competition laws. The Committee report is non-binding but it could pave the way for additional regulations. Back here in the U.S., the Federal Trade Commission issued a complaint against Facebook saying the company reveals sensitive health data in groups. And the FTC is currently in the process of negotiation a multibillion dollar fine with the company. Also, several groups including Common Sense filed an FTC complaint against Facebook for violating children’s privacy laws and pushing kids to make in-app purchases. And the Verge posted an exposé yesterday on Facebook’s treatment of its contractors working for Cognizant. Apparently content screeners paid less than $29,000 a year are the first line of defense in preventing harmful content from being posted to the site. The reviewers are routinely exposed to death, sexual abuse, and other types of content that exacts an extreme mental health toll on these workers. Facebook claims its working to alleviate some of these working conditions. Google YouTube is facing an advertiser boycott after a YouTuber published a report detailing how comments and recommendations on normal products, like bikinis, ultimately nudge users to access inappropriate videos of children. The video aren’t necessarily pornographic per se, but users post comments within the videos that included time stamps that show children in compromising poses and positions. Nestle, Disney and Fortnight are among several advertisers that have pulled or restricted ads from YouTube because their ads appeared alongside the inappropriate content. YouTube reiterated its zero-tolerance policy for such content and deleted millions of the comments in question that directed viewers to the material in question. In other YouTube news, the platform announced that going forward it will prevent anti-vaxxer channels from hosting ads. YouTube cited its policy against dangerous and harmful content. And YouTube’s parent company Alphabet’s Google unit announced that it will end its policy of forced arbitration regarding worker disputes. Microsoft defends military contract Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella defended a $479 million military contract with the US Army to supply the company’s augmented reality systems called HoloLens. More than 100 Microsoft employees signed a letter protesting the contract and asking Microsoft to back out.  But Nadella said the company won’t withhold technology from what he deems to be “democratic governments” such as the United States. Bipartisan group of Senators ask DoE and Homeland to block Huawei A Bipartisan group of Senators wrote a letter to the Departments of Energy and Homeland Security yesterday urging them to block Huawei technology from accessing U.S. electrical systems and infrastructure. Several weeks ago, Congress blocked Huawei from accessing the nation’s telecommunication’s infrastructure as security officials believe the China-based company is working on behalf of the Chinese government to spy on the U.S.

The Culture, Media and Sport Committee has begun an inquiry into the Future of the BBC, ahead of the corporations current Royal Charter ending in December 2016. It will look at the role of the organisation, how it's funded, and discuss alternatives to the present licence fee. Steve Hewlett speaks to the Chairman of the Committee, Conservative MP John Whittingdale about the scope of the inquiry and what he's hoping to achieve. Also in the studio is John Tate who, as a former Head of Strategy of the organisation, was instrumental in the last licence fee settlement. He tells Steve why the independence of the BBC needs even greater safeguarding in the course of Charter renewal and licence fee negotiationCritics of Benefits Street have called it, 'poverty porn' that reinforces harmful stereotypes; Channel 4 describes it as a, 'series that reveals the reality of life on benefits'. Since it's airing last week, the programme about residents of James Turner Street has induced an online petition, protests outside the production office, and a question in parliament. So, what did Channel 4 have in mind when it commissioned the series? And is the programme really representing benefit claimants? Steve Hewlett discusses with Ralph Lee, Head of Factual at Channel 4, Executive Producer of Benefits Street Keiran Smith, and Katharine Sacks-Jones from the Who Benefits? campaign.Producer: Katy Takatsuki.

Kim and John discuss the report issued by the U.K. parliament's Culture, Media and Sport Committee on NewsCorp that deemed Rupert Murdoch "unfit" to run the company.

 with Catherine Mayer, London Bureau Chief, TIME Magazine;  Dan Sabbagh, Head of Media and Technology, The Guardian and  John Whittingdale OBE MP, Member of Parliament for Maldon and Chair, Culture, Media and Sport Committee. Chaired by Peter York Somerset House