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
to sexual harassment or indeed assault. and eleanor. sorry, sorry to interrupt. eleanor, i was going to say just quickly, what s your take on whether politicaljournalism has more of an issue with sexism than other areas ofjournalism? i m with kate, i m not certain, because i ve not worked in other areas ofjournalism, but i do think that because, as kate was saying, because of that very personal relationship you have to have with mp5 and people in politics that you maybe experience, enountering people and you get to know them a lot more closely. so, you maybe encounter these kind of issues more often because rather than speaking to 30 people and then never speaking to them again, you re speaking to them again and again and there s more of a chance for inappropriate behaviour to come out if somebody is that way inclined. just very quickly, on your list of who you tell your editor, is it by political party, is one party worse than the other or can you not say? definitely can t say that. f