Keeping Whittingdale's affair out of the press worked well then #HIGNFY

Please explain this, @JWhittingdale... It seems to expose your consultation as a partial lie...

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Did #Whittingdale's 'whiplash' secret affect his decisions on #pressregulation?

@DrEvanHarris #bbcpm

Perjuror #AndrewMitchell: My friend John #Whittingdale's done nothing wrong

#pressregulation #Leveson

Hacked Off founder says press had "obligation" to write about John #Whittingdale's private life @LBC #bbcdp

Cameron used well known anti BBC John Whittingdale's appointment to the DCMS to frighten BBC into an appalling financial agree't

@LBC

Whittingdale's panel assessing the role & future of the #BBC is entirely made up of its critics & competitors. Not one pro BBC voice #c4news

Student placements can bring fresh perspectives to address complex challenges. Watch how DPhil student Ellie Whittingdale's placement with Rape Crisis England & Wales led to a landmark law change for the #KeepCounsellingConfidential campaign #ResearchPartnerships www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z0H...

Beeb has been captured by the right wing ever since John Whittingdale’s licence fee negotiations

She was John Whittingdale’s office aide when it was launched. Matthew Elliot appears to have been one of the people who founded it.
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#Whittingdale would rather his date believed he was a Russian arms dealer than a senior MP. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3543701/MP-s-porn-star-lover-shown-Cabinet-papers-John-Whittingdale-new-sex-scandal-SECOND-lover-reveals-affair.html Resignation later today?

@that_JD @MichaelLCrick Heat Street, a new Murdoch-owned website for the right libertarian market. Right up #Whittingdale's street.

Not forgetting his current spouse. She was at the launch of Conservative Friends of Russia & had been Whittingdale’s Media Special Adviser.

I reckon the BBC were burst in the mid 2010’s with the threats from the Tory Lib-Dem coalition to take action against them. Whether by reducing their earnings from the licence, or implied break up of the organisation with Murdoch and others waiting in the wings. Remember Whittingdale’s tenure ?

What makes you see the russian language, and seek convoluted explanations?

Honestly this weird blind spot in the British psyche feels like some blunt trauma. Brexit, Lebedev/Johnson affair, Whittingdale's damp arse, One Blackfriars skyscraper, russia today.

The denial is definite.

Another great episode of ⁦@BBCRadio4⁩ #MediaShow, with ⁦⁦@DCMS⁩ @JWhittingdale,⁩ under patient questioning by ⁦@amolrajan⁩. Lots on #radio, #psb, #levellingup, and vg section on local & community broadcasting. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000p79h

📢 'A fascinating and illuminating read'.

😊 Delighted to see John Whittingdale's @politicshome.bsky.social review of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street'.

✅ 'thoroughly researched'
✅ 'both enjoyable and illuminating'
✅ 'generally balanced and fair'

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Gosh the VenetoRussia thing sounds and feels a lot like the Conservative Friends of Russia (their 2012 launch at the Russian embassy in London famously attended by the future Mrs Johnson in her capacity as John Whittingdale's media spad)

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Whittingdale's removed the requirement in the charter that the BBC develop “emerging comms technologies & services”.