the queen has pulled out of tuesday s state opening of parliament in london. it will be the first time since 1963 the queen will have missed the annual ceremony which sets out the british government s legislative agenda for the year ahead. prince charles will deliver the speech instead. i m a big dog. yo, baby, you don t have to put your top back on. lwas w. he was twice my age. there was this kind of power dynamic. this is predatory behaviour. that s the joint bbc guardian newspaper investigation into alleged sexual misconduct by the dj, tim westwood. i ve been speaking to the reporter behind it about how you get a story like that over the line. but first, just as europe gets tough on the big tech companies, does the uk look poised to do less, not more? the financial times reported this week that ministers have ditched plans to empower their newest tech regulator with, well, actual power. the snappily named digital markets unit was announced to great fanfare back in 2020 w
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and that s despite the fact that it was already introduced, so this dmu exists in shadow form with 60 members of staff thereabouts. but they are unable at the moment to do the job that they were basically hired to do. well, philip marsden, you were with this since the beginning under theresa may. did the news come as a surprise to you? it did because the momentum has been really strong the last three or four years to undertake this initiative, and in fact if i canjust give you a very bad metaphor, antitrust cases against these big tech giants are like, you know, a cowboy on foot chasing a galloping wild horse. this legislation is designed to try to corral that horse and let it do more for others, let these tech giants open up to others. but not putting this bill through in the queen s speech is like locking the barn door well after the horses have bolted, but also locking the cowboys inside and maybe even setting fire to the barn. so, when did you first get the hint that. you know, it
and that s despite the fact that it was already introduced, so this dmu exists in shadow form with 60 members of staff thereabouts. but they are unable at the moment to do the job that they were basically hired to do. well, philip marsden, you were with this since the beginning under theresa may. did the news come as a surprise to you? it did because the momentum has been really strong the last three or four years to undertake this initiative, and in fact if i canjust give you a very bad metaphor, antitrust cases against these big tech giants are like, you know, a cowboy on foot chasing a galloping wild horse. this legislation is designed to try to corral that horse and let it do more for others, let these tech giants open up to others. but not putting this bill through in the queen s speech is like locking the barn door well after the horses have bolted, but also locking the cowboys inside and maybe even setting fire to the barn.
the government announced it was setting up this digital markets unit two years ago, and the idea was that this would be able to police big tech and really kind of rein in the dominance of those internet giants like facebook, google and all the rest of it. and the idea was that it would have this sweeping power to set new rules for those big tech companies, bespoke rules tailored to their specific markets and sectors. and it would be able to really heavily enforce against those companies if they fell foul of the rules. so, that s why it matters. it s a very radical regime that was envisaged. ok, so, what have you revealed? so, we ve revealed that the government is currently not planning to introduce those plans in the queen s speech, so it s not currently planning to empower this digital markets unit with the very tools it needs to enact this radical new regime, leaving it essentially hamstrung. and that s despite the fact that it was already introduced, so this dmu exists in shadow for
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