A new campaign from MPs in the Culture, Media, and Sport committee is calling for a new tax on streaming services. Higher prices for UK streamers…
This tax, 5% of subscriber revenue, would be put “into a cultural fund to help finance drama with a specific interest to British audiences” because “distinctly British content” is “under threat.” The report says productions like ‘Adolescence’ are “vital” to the country’s “identity, national conversations and talent pipeline.” It was of course produced by Netflix, which MPs are now proposing to tax. Make it make sense…
The tax campaign, led by CMS committee chairman Caroline Dinenage, has had wide airings on the Today Programme, Sky News, and across the BBC and print media. The fund it would establish would decide to fund strategic British drama productions to stimulate the national conversation in the same way that ‘Adolescence’ has done. Might as well just found ‘Britfilm‘ now and be done with it…
Things have got so absurd with ‘Adolescence’ that Kemi is having to argue with Naga Munchetty as to whether or not it is crucial to watch as a “documentary” on “toxic masculinity” and “smartphone use.” Not only is Adolescence writing government social policy, it is now to be responsible for levying additional taxes…
Starmer spoke to Nick Robinson for the Today Programme on Polanski’s criticism of the Golders Green police officers:
“I want everybody just to imagine what it might be like. You’re trying to arrest someone who has already attacked two people and has no regard for life. We know that tasers were fired. I know from my own experience with the police, that there are only two shots in a taser, and once you’ve shot them, there’s nothing left. There’s a guy on the ground, he’s got a rucksack on. And I don’t know what was going through the mind of those officers, but if I was there, I’d be thinking, he’s going to detonate something. He’s going to blow me up and everybody around here. In those circumstances, I think you can quite see why what could have gone through their mind is, we need to do whatever we can to disable this guy…
Now, when I then see Zack Polanski come out and retweet or support a criticism of that, I think it’s disgraceful… He’s not fit to lead any political party.”