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| Media Monkey: Karen Bradley, the Great British Bake Off, and Ed Vaizey | |
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| • Commiserations to culture minister Ed Vaizey, who was dropped by Theresa May on Friday evening after six years in the role. He confirmed the news of his own “Vexit” on Twitter, saying he was “looking forward to supporting the government from the backbenches”. | • Commiserations to culture minister Ed Vaizey, who was dropped by Theresa May on Friday evening after six years in the role. He confirmed the news of his own “Vexit” on Twitter, saying he was “looking forward to supporting the government from the backbenches”. |
| Looking forward to supporting the government from the backbenches #vexit | Looking forward to supporting the government from the backbenches #vexit |
| The affable Tory MP managed to break the record for the longest-serving arts minister in May – beating Jennie Lee’s run in the 60s – and made friends throughout the creative industries along the way. Among the media names paying tribute on Twitter were Simon Schama, Pat Younge, the National Theatre, Sandi Toksvig, Miranda Sawyer and Louise Mensch. | The affable Tory MP managed to break the record for the longest-serving arts minister in May – beating Jennie Lee’s run in the 60s – and made friends throughout the creative industries along the way. Among the media names paying tribute on Twitter were Simon Schama, Pat Younge, the National Theatre, Sandi Toksvig, Miranda Sawyer and Louise Mensch. |
| @edvaizey dear Ed - an artsfelt thankyou | @edvaizey dear Ed - an artsfelt thankyou |
| @edvaizey This is sad news. Driven real change on diversity after years of inaction, also a decent bloke. @LennyHenry #keepupthepressure | @edvaizey This is sad news. Driven real change on diversity after years of inaction, also a decent bloke. @LennyHenry #keepupthepressure |
| Huge thanks to @edvaizey, who as the UK’s longest serving arts minister has been a tireless advocate for culture and the arts. | Huge thanks to @edvaizey, who as the UK’s longest serving arts minister has been a tireless advocate for culture and the arts. |
| @edvaizey We'll miss you. You did good listening, and that's so needed, and so rare. Thank you. | @edvaizey We'll miss you. You did good listening, and that's so needed, and so rare. Thank you. |
| @edvaizey Oh Ed, that is a shame. Thank you for all your brilliant work for the arts | @edvaizey Oh Ed, that is a shame. Thank you for all your brilliant work for the arts |
| @edvaizey approximately 18 months is a short time in politics. You were only minister I was ever jealous of. You will be missed v much. xxx | @edvaizey approximately 18 months is a short time in politics. You were only minister I was ever jealous of. You will be missed v much. xxx |
| Vaizey will be replaced by West Suffolk MP Matthew Hancock, who was previously the minister for the cabinet office and paymaster general. He will work alongside new culture secretary Karen Bradley, who replaced John Whittingdale on Thursday. | Vaizey will be replaced by West Suffolk MP Matthew Hancock, who was previously the minister for the cabinet office and paymaster general. He will work alongside new culture secretary Karen Bradley, who replaced John Whittingdale on Thursday. |
| • Bradley can apparently claim to have already made an impact in the media, however. While part of Theresa May’s Home Office team, she is credited (together with Margot James MP) with “converting” her senior colleague Nicholas Soames “to the joys of Twitter” – and Fatty Soames has never looked back, subjecting fellow-Tories and Labour shadow ministers alike to a stream of robustly worded tweeted tirades. | • Bradley can apparently claim to have already made an impact in the media, however. While part of Theresa May’s Home Office team, she is credited (together with Margot James MP) with “converting” her senior colleague Nicholas Soames “to the joys of Twitter” – and Fatty Soames has never looked back, subjecting fellow-Tories and Labour shadow ministers alike to a stream of robustly worded tweeted tirades. |
| • A strange, perhaps reckless, confession from LBC drivetime host Iain Dale. “5 Live is my station of choice to listen to,” he told the Media Masters podcast. “It would be my dream to be on 5 Live.” Also a publisher and on Sky’s newspaper reviewer rota, he may need to craft an apology to the speech station for sounding like a footballer looking for a transfer, just as he did previously when in danger of being dropped – someone had filmed him grappling with a protester (who refused to get out of shot) on Brighton’s seafront as he tried to interview the former Labour adviser Damian McBride, one of his Biteback authors. Dale sent a draft of his grovelling public statement to Alastair Campbell for a rewrite, a move that has since produced a business bonus – “I’m now publishing Alastair’s next diaries”. | • A strange, perhaps reckless, confession from LBC drivetime host Iain Dale. “5 Live is my station of choice to listen to,” he told the Media Masters podcast. “It would be my dream to be on 5 Live.” Also a publisher and on Sky’s newspaper reviewer rota, he may need to craft an apology to the speech station for sounding like a footballer looking for a transfer, just as he did previously when in danger of being dropped – someone had filmed him grappling with a protester (who refused to get out of shot) on Brighton’s seafront as he tried to interview the former Labour adviser Damian McBride, one of his Biteback authors. Dale sent a draft of his grovelling public statement to Alastair Campbell for a rewrite, a move that has since produced a business bonus – “I’m now publishing Alastair’s next diaries”. |
| • Monkey guessed The Night Manager, others more plausibly went for War & Peace – but in the end the keynote, brand-moulding image on the front of the BBC’s annual report, published last week, was the announcement of the winner in the Great British Bake Off: a fine advert for DG Tony Hall’s commitment to diversity, as the photo includes not only Nadiya Hussain but also Tamal Ray, and (with Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry pictured too) a decent mix of ages. War & Peace, with its all-white and often posh set of characters, had to be content with the covers of both the separate brochures for BBC Worldwide and financial statements, while the spy drama was, er, not very prominent at all. On that basis, the Beeb’s latest prestige adaptation, of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent (which began on Sunday), will be lucky if a single small photo of it appears at the back of the Worldwide report. Possibly dreamt up before Hall started to enthuse about properly representing women and minorities, it threatens to wreck his percentages – of around 10 police officers, anarchists and others in its main cast, only Vicky McClure’s Winnie is a woman, and none of them is non-white (though one is disabled). Tricky stuff, costume drama. | • Monkey guessed The Night Manager, others more plausibly went for War & Peace – but in the end the keynote, brand-moulding image on the front of the BBC’s annual report, published last week, was the announcement of the winner in the Great British Bake Off: a fine advert for DG Tony Hall’s commitment to diversity, as the photo includes not only Nadiya Hussain but also Tamal Ray, and (with Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry pictured too) a decent mix of ages. War & Peace, with its all-white and often posh set of characters, had to be content with the covers of both the separate brochures for BBC Worldwide and financial statements, while the spy drama was, er, not very prominent at all. On that basis, the Beeb’s latest prestige adaptation, of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent (which began on Sunday), will be lucky if a single small photo of it appears at the back of the Worldwide report. Possibly dreamt up before Hall started to enthuse about properly representing women and minorities, it threatens to wreck his percentages – of around 10 police officers, anarchists and others in its main cast, only Vicky McClure’s Winnie is a woman, and none of them is non-white (though one is disabled). Tricky stuff, costume drama. |
| • The risks, even potentially libellous ones, of live TV subtitling apparently based on an audio version of predictive text (sometimes, but not always, quickly revised by human beings) were evident again during the hurly-burly of what the Times called “the day of the short stilettos”, aka the announcement of Theresa May’s first cabinet. Watching it unfold on Sky News without sound in the gym, Monkey saw one political reporter quoted as saying “one of the first things [May] will do is have a security breach”, and another mysteriously said of her former colleague Joey Jones (now in Downing Street in her comms team) that he is “one of her ketamine occasions advisers”. Monkey can only pray the new PM and her spinner are spared any such ketamine occasions, at least while she’s still getting used to the job. | • The risks, even potentially libellous ones, of live TV subtitling apparently based on an audio version of predictive text (sometimes, but not always, quickly revised by human beings) were evident again during the hurly-burly of what the Times called “the day of the short stilettos”, aka the announcement of Theresa May’s first cabinet. Watching it unfold on Sky News without sound in the gym, Monkey saw one political reporter quoted as saying “one of the first things [May] will do is have a security breach”, and another mysteriously said of her former colleague Joey Jones (now in Downing Street in her comms team) that he is “one of her ketamine occasions advisers”. Monkey can only pray the new PM and her spinner are spared any such ketamine occasions, at least while she’s still getting used to the job. |
| • This article was amended on 18 July to replace previously published text that appeared due to a technical error with the correct copy | • This article was amended on 18 July to replace previously published text that appeared due to a technical error with the correct copy |