NEW COLUMN: Crying wolf in Streeting's clothing. In which I question yet another exhortation for us to stockpile in preparation for a triple threat. With references to #BorisJohnson #OliverDowden #WesStreeting #AndyBurnham #MillenniumBug #Y2K #Brexit #Covid19 #ClimateEmergency
October 30, 2026 at 6:21 PM
NEW COLUMN: Crying wolf in Streeting's clothing. In which I question yet another exhortation for us to stockpile in preparation for a triple threat. With references to #BorisJohnson #OliverDowden #WesStreeting #AndyBurnham #MillenniumBug #Y2K #Brexit #Covid19 #ClimateEmergency
Should the prime minister resign if it is found that he misled parliament? - @SophyRidgeSky
"I think the prime minister is doing a really important job." says @OliverDowden
"I think there's a very, very strong case for the Prime Minister remaining in office," he adds.
"I think the prime minister is doing a really important job." says @OliverDowden
"I think there's a very, very strong case for the Prime Minister remaining in office," he adds.
December 4, 2024 at 11:06 PM
Should the prime minister resign if it is found that he misled parliament? - @SophyRidgeSky
"I think the prime minister is doing a really important job." says @OliverDowden
"I think there's a very, very strong case for the Prime Minister remaining in office," he adds.
"I think the prime minister is doing a really important job." says @OliverDowden
"I think there's a very, very strong case for the Prime Minister remaining in office," he adds.
Interesting interview with @OliverDowden here. Confirms new head of @ICOnews will be New Zealand's privacy commissioner John Edwards @JCE_PC https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/08/25/oliver-dowden-creating-data-laws-one-biggest-prizes-brexit/
Oliver Dowden: creating our own data laws is one of the b...
Speaking to The Telegraph, Mr Dowden says proposals to re...
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November 27, 2024 at 7:55 PM
Interesting interview with @OliverDowden here. Confirms new head of @ICOnews will be New Zealand's privacy commissioner John Edwards @JCE_PC https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/08/25/oliver-dowden-creating-data-laws-one-biggest-prizes-brexit/
#PMQs The winner of the prize for the stupidest question of the week was tight with two contenders:
OliverDowden despite being state educated, continued his fantasy of being Boris Johnson's "fag" at Eton by arguing that private schools should not have to pay tax & peasants should know their place
OliverDowden despite being state educated, continued his fantasy of being Boris Johnson's "fag" at Eton by arguing that private schools should not have to pay tax & peasants should know their place
March 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
#PMQs The winner of the prize for the stupidest question of the week was tight with two contenders:
OliverDowden despite being state educated, continued his fantasy of being Boris Johnson's "fag" at Eton by arguing that private schools should not have to pay tax & peasants should know their place
OliverDowden despite being state educated, continued his fantasy of being Boris Johnson's "fag" at Eton by arguing that private schools should not have to pay tax & peasants should know their place
I just signed the petition calling on Culture Secretary @OliverDowden to scrap his damaging plans to sell off Channel 4 to a private buyer! Can you add your name too?
speakout.38degrees.org.uk/campaigns/keep…
speakout.38degrees.org.uk/campaigns/keep…
Keep Channel 4 Public!
I just signed the petition calling on Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries to scrap her damaging plans to sell off Channel 4 to a private buyer! Can you add your name too?
speakout.38degrees.org.uk
December 9, 2024 at 9:33 AM
I just signed the petition calling on Culture Secretary @OliverDowden to scrap his damaging plans to sell off Channel 4 to a private buyer! Can you add your name too?
speakout.38degrees.org.uk/campaigns/keep…
speakout.38degrees.org.uk/campaigns/keep…
#Politics #OliverDowden #PoliticsTV #Generalelection2024 Dim Dowden is not the right Tory frontman to energise a flat campaign | John Crace: It was a bad day all round for TV election interviews, and Sunak’s abrasive chat with Kuenssberg will not win points
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Dim Dowden is not the right Tory frontman to energise a flat campaign | John Crace
It was a bad day all round for TV election interviews, and Sunak’s abrasive chat with Kuenssberg will not win points
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Get this. You’re still 20 points behind in the polls. Some even show you to be in third place…
dlvr.it
June 30, 2024 at 1:04 PM
#Politics #OliverDowden #PoliticsTV #Generalelection2024 Dim Dowden is not the right Tory frontman to energise a flat campaign | John Crace: It was a bad day all round for TV election interviews, and Sunak’s abrasive chat with Kuenssberg will not win points
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#Generalelection2024 #Conservatives #OliverDowden #JamesCleverly Tories in election retreat as resources diverted to defend ministers’ seats: Activists and candidates sent to campaign for Cleverly, Dowden and Barclay, who all hold 20,000-plus majorities
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Tories in election retreat as resources diverted to defend ministers’ seats
Activists and candidates sent to campaign for Cleverly, Dowden and Barclay, who all hold 20,000-plus majorities
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The Conservatives are rerouting resources to defend at least three seats held by cabinet ministers…
dlvr.it
June 24, 2024 at 3:54 PM
#Generalelection2024 #Conservatives #OliverDowden #JamesCleverly Tories in election retreat as resources diverted to defend ministers’ seats: Activists and candidates sent to campaign for Cleverly, Dowden and Barclay, who all hold 20,000-plus majorities
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There is no logical reason for indoor choir rehearsals of more than 6 singers to be banned in England while Wales consider it safe.
Review the Step 3 choirs guidelines urgently @DCMS @OliverDowden
#LetChoirsSing #Choir
#singingmatters #ChoirsMatter
Review the Step 3 choirs guidelines urgently @DCMS @OliverDowden
#LetChoirsSing #Choir
#singingmatters #ChoirsMatter
November 19, 2024 at 1:46 PM
There is no logical reason for indoor choir rehearsals of more than 6 singers to be banned in England while Wales consider it safe.
Review the Step 3 choirs guidelines urgently @DCMS @OliverDowden
#LetChoirsSing #Choir
#singingmatters #ChoirsMatter
Review the Step 3 choirs guidelines urgently @DCMS @OliverDowden
#LetChoirsSing #Choir
#singingmatters #ChoirsMatter
When @Choir_NHS were rehearsing for their Brits performance were they allowed more than 6 of them to sing together? Yep. That's how choirs work @DCMS @OliverDowden
#letChoirsSing
@MakingMusic_UK
#letChoirsSing
@MakingMusic_UK
November 19, 2024 at 1:45 PM
When @Choir_NHS were rehearsing for their Brits performance were they allowed more than 6 of them to sing together? Yep. That's how choirs work @DCMS @OliverDowden
#letChoirsSing
@MakingMusic_UK
#letChoirsSing
@MakingMusic_UK
We need @MakingMusic_UK to organise a protest choir to march to @DCMS (in groups of 30, of course) wielding our negative lateral flow tests and 20 page risk assessments, to sing to @OliverDowden #letchoirssing #choirsUK
November 19, 2024 at 1:45 PM
We need @MakingMusic_UK to organise a protest choir to march to @DCMS (in groups of 30, of course) wielding our negative lateral flow tests and 20 page risk assessments, to sing to @OliverDowden #letchoirssing #choirsUK
November 17, 2024 at 11:18 PM
Perhaps Sue Gray can bear in mind the slides presented to us plebs by @OliverDowden on 20 May 2020 - especially slide number 8...
November 19, 2024 at 11:58 AM
Perhaps Sue Gray can bear in mind the slides presented to us plebs by @OliverDowden on 20 May 2020 - especially slide number 8...
Proof of how utterly anonymous the present Tory cabinet really is: @OliverDowden – his face ideal for a non-speaking part as an East German henchman in a bad 80s TV movie – is apparently minister for the ludicrously confused department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
December 11, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Proof of how utterly anonymous the present Tory cabinet really is: @OliverDowden – his face ideal for a non-speaking part as an East German henchman in a bad 80s TV movie – is apparently minister for the ludicrously confused department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
#BBCQT ok, @OliverDowden wants to suppress racism.
Here's one route, you muppet/puppet:
https://www.businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-record-sexist-homophobic-and-racist-comments-bumboys-piccaninnies-2019-6?r=US&IR=T
Here's one route, you muppet/puppet:
https://www.businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-record-sexist-homophobic-and-racist-comments-bumboys-piccaninnies-2019-6?r=US&IR=T
Boris Johnson called gay men 'tank-topped bumboys' and bl...
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has a long record of maki...
www.businessinsider.com
November 21, 2024 at 11:22 PM
#BBCQT ok, @OliverDowden wants to suppress racism.
Here's one route, you muppet/puppet:
https://www.businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-record-sexist-homophobic-and-racist-comments-bumboys-piccaninnies-2019-6?r=US&IR=T
Here's one route, you muppet/puppet:
https://www.businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-record-sexist-homophobic-and-racist-comments-bumboys-piccaninnies-2019-6?r=US&IR=T
Dear @OliverDowden. At the DCMS committee, David Frost @DavidGHFrost said of foreign music touring “we will support the industry”.
Like Johnson, Frost says whatever gets him through a meeting. Is any support actually planned or was this just another lie?
Like Johnson, Frost says whatever gets him through a meeting. Is any support actually planned or was this just another lie?
November 23, 2024 at 1:43 PM
Dear @OliverDowden. At the DCMS committee, David Frost @DavidGHFrost said of foreign music touring “we will support the industry”.
Like Johnson, Frost says whatever gets him through a meeting. Is any support actually planned or was this just another lie?
Like Johnson, Frost says whatever gets him through a meeting. Is any support actually planned or was this just another lie?
When I gave talks about the GDPR before Brexit, I said that no-one in government understood the business significance of international data flows. The dimmer ones, I said, would see only restriction and “red tape”.
Oh look, here’s @OliverDowden
Oh look, here’s @OliverDowden
November 23, 2024 at 7:03 AM
When I gave talks about the GDPR before Brexit, I said that no-one in government understood the business significance of international data flows. The dimmer ones, I said, would see only restriction and “red tape”.
Oh look, here’s @OliverDowden
Oh look, here’s @OliverDowden
Hello @OliverDowden. Can you identify one UK business which has called for GDPR divergence?
Real businesses, not just Brexit groupies nor those just whining about “irritating cookies” (whose complaint is probably actually about the PECR rather than the GDPR anyway)
Real businesses, not just Brexit groupies nor those just whining about “irritating cookies” (whose complaint is probably actually about the PECR rather than the GDPR anyway)
November 23, 2024 at 6:55 AM
Hello @OliverDowden. Can you identify one UK business which has called for GDPR divergence?
Real businesses, not just Brexit groupies nor those just whining about “irritating cookies” (whose complaint is probably actually about the PECR rather than the GDPR anyway)
Real businesses, not just Brexit groupies nor those just whining about “irritating cookies” (whose complaint is probably actually about the PECR rather than the GDPR anyway)
What more Brexit freedoms can we want? We've got higher prices, lorry queues, sewage, piles of dead pigs, food rotting in fields.
@OliverDowden is brighter and more decent than most of them, and even he peddles this nonsense
@OliverDowden is brighter and more decent than most of them, and even he peddles this nonsense
November 22, 2024 at 2:15 PM
What more Brexit freedoms can we want? We've got higher prices, lorry queues, sewage, piles of dead pigs, food rotting in fields.
@OliverDowden is brighter and more decent than most of them, and even he peddles this nonsense
@OliverDowden is brighter and more decent than most of them, and even he peddles this nonsense
Other events have suppressed little @OliverDowden popping up every so often to squawk "Woke!" like a single-issue parrot.
Come on Oliver! There are people whose only intellectual diet is anti-wokery. Give them something to believe in.
Come on Oliver! There are people whose only intellectual diet is anti-wokery. Give them something to believe in.
November 22, 2024 at 10:05 AM
Other events have suppressed little @OliverDowden popping up every so often to squawk "Woke!" like a single-issue parrot.
Come on Oliver! There are people whose only intellectual diet is anti-wokery. Give them something to believe in.
Come on Oliver! There are people whose only intellectual diet is anti-wokery. Give them something to believe in.
Little @OliverDowden has only two themes "woke" and "the left". He couldn't define either of them.
Who is he appealing to with this picture of Karl Marx and Ken Livingstone lurking in suburban lanes with shears?
Who is he appealing to with this picture of Karl Marx and Ken Livingstone lurking in suburban lanes with shears?
November 22, 2024 at 9:28 AM
Little @OliverDowden has only two themes "woke" and "the left". He couldn't define either of them.
Who is he appealing to with this picture of Karl Marx and Ken Livingstone lurking in suburban lanes with shears?
Who is he appealing to with this picture of Karl Marx and Ken Livingstone lurking in suburban lanes with shears?
The marbles meeting: "It's not a snub, we offered them Oliver Dowden". An insult more than a snub, perhaps.
@OliverDowden was the chap always whining about "Woke" - 'painful woke psychodrama' was one of his lines - suggesting that his time at Cambridge left little mark on him.
@OliverDowden was the chap always whining about "Woke" - 'painful woke psychodrama' was one of his lines - suggesting that his time at Cambridge left little mark on him.
November 19, 2024 at 2:15 AM
The marbles meeting: "It's not a snub, we offered them Oliver Dowden". An insult more than a snub, perhaps.
@OliverDowden was the chap always whining about "Woke" - 'painful woke psychodrama' was one of his lines - suggesting that his time at Cambridge left little mark on him.
@OliverDowden was the chap always whining about "Woke" - 'painful woke psychodrama' was one of his lines - suggesting that his time at Cambridge left little mark on him.
Music venues don’t need a fixed reopening date - they need financial support from the government or they will not survive the closure period. @OliverDowden #LetTheMusicPlay #saveourvenues
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February 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Music venues don’t need a fixed reopening date - they need financial support from the government or they will not survive the closure period. @OliverDowden #LetTheMusicPlay #saveourvenues
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x.com/OliverDowden/s…
November 22, 2024 at 11:25 AM
Guilty of schadenfreude today at #PMQs to see the hope's of the Tory party go up in smoke as another totally inept performance by #KemiBadenoch she was all over the place with her questions. Never mind #OliverDowden is primed & ready to take over. What could possibly go wrong. 😂😂😂😂😂
February 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Guilty of schadenfreude today at #PMQs to see the hope's of the Tory party go up in smoke as another totally inept performance by #KemiBadenoch she was all over the place with her questions. Never mind #OliverDowden is primed & ready to take over. What could possibly go wrong. 😂😂😂😂😂