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Oliver Dowden should be saving the arts, not nit-picking The Crown
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden recently asked Netflix to add a disclaimer informing viewers that The Crown is not wholly factual – a request that the streaming giant firmly denied. Now Josh O’Connor, who plays Prince Charles in the hit series, has labelled Dowden’s … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre, TV
Tagged Culture Secretary, government, josh o'connor, netflix, oliver dowden, prince charles, princess diana, royal family, telegraph, the arts, the crown, the queen, theatre, tv
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Arts leaders have barely heard from Oliver Dowden – how did he find time to watch The Crown?
The government’s new tiers system is wreaking havoc on the theatre industry. And what is Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden’s major priority? Picking a fight with Netflix over labelling The Crown a work of fiction. Read my full Telegraph article here
Posted in Journalism, Theatre, TV
Tagged arts, funding, government, netflix, oliver dowden, telegraph, the crown, tv
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Public cash for billionaires? The questions hanging over Oliver Dowden’s Cultural Recovery Fund
This week saw some succour for the arts. The award of £257 million in grants to British organisations has finally been announced. This money will come from the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund, and it’s designed to tide businesses over … Continue reading
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Tagged art, arts, arts council, boris johnson, comedy, coronavirus, culture, David Ross, dcms, freelancer, freelancers, Frog and Bucket, funding, funds, government, grant, grants, img artists, london palladium, mission mars, money, music, nevill holt opera, oliver dowden, pandemic, Paradigm Agency, reopening, rescue fund, rescue package, secret cinema, select committee, social distancing, telegraph, theatre, west end, wigmore hall
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The government’s attitude to Fatima and the arts will put them on the wrong side of history – they just don’t know it yet
The latest tone-deaf salvo from our government to the creative sector is a CyberFirst campaign (belatedly removed after an outcry), one part of which depicts a ballet dancer called Fatima. The text reads: “Fatima’s next job could be in cyber (she just doesn’t know it … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged ad, advert, advertisement, arts, ballet, ballet dancer, campaign, culture, cyber, cyber first, dance, dancer, dancing, dido harding, economy, fatima, funding, government, independent, industry, oliver dowden, pandemic, rescue package, retrain, test and trace, theatre
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UK arts leaders in despair: ‘By the time we’re allowed to reopen, we may be too decimated to do so’
Just weeks ago, Oliver Dowden announced Operation Sleeping Beauty – the panto-styled aim to get our beleaguered cultural venues refilling by Christmas. But, following the Prime Minister’s unveiling of strict new Covid-19 guidelines, it now looks like the sector will be left … Continue reading
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Tagged arts, chancellor, coronavirus, covid 19, freelance, freelancer, funding, furlough, government, oliver dowden, Rishi Sunak, self employment scheme, telegraph, theatre
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