DCMS has spent nearly £400,000 since April on ‘security and facilities’ at Blythe House, the West Kensington museum store it has been trying to sell since 2022. £400,000 to sweep some cobwebs and guard an empty building…
Payments to Chase Services Group and Vertex Services Group have arrived every month, totalling £393,507. The Science Museum moved out in 2024, yet the building remains unsold. And DCMS has signed a new security contract running until January 2028…
Lucy Powell told Sky News that the Ed Miliband-Russell Brand interview happened in part because the ‘social media age’ had not begun by 2015:
“Look, I mean, he approached the Labour Party, he approached the campaign team, and we’re in very different times now. We weren’t in the social media age at the time – where you could maybe search things up and see allegations about somebody at the time. and as I say, if there was any suggestion at all, we were dealing with someone who was a known sexual predator at the time, then, of course, you know, no one would have done that. But as I say, he was a well known public figure. Lots of people from Hollywood to the BBC to many others gave this person a very, very powerful platform. And we didn’t know at the time, unfortunately. It was a different era.”