UK Parliament
House of Lords Podcast: with Baroness Lane Fox of Soho
7 May 2021 2021
This month, we hear from Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane Fox of Soho, about the work of the Lords COVID-19 Committee, which she chairs. She discusses the impact of the pandemic on the digital shift in our lives and what more the government needs to do to ensure nobody is left behind.
‘We heard so many examples of very, very difficult situations for children to be learning and when they were forced online at the beginning of the first lockdown. Families sharing one smartphone between multiple children, I mean, I just can t imagine how stressful that must have been for people and we know it was.’
Keep using the provided tools, NCSC says
Gareth Corfield Wed 14 Apr 2021 // 09:16 UTC Share
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Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat has publicly claimed GCHQ sources told him Gmail was more secure than Parliament’s own Microsoft Office 365 deployment – but both Parliament and a GCHQ offshoot have told him to stop being silly.
The outspoken parliamentarian, who is chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, made his comments to BBC radio after person or persons unknown sent emails to his colleagues claiming he had quit the committee. I was told by friends at GCHQ that I was better off sticking to Gmail rather than using the parliamentary system because it was more secure, Tugendhat told the BBC’s Today Programme. He continued to splutter: Frankly, that tells you the level of security and the priority we re giving to democracy in the United Kingdom.