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
portrayed in negative lights or even stories that matter to the black communities not being given as much prominence in news agendas as other stories. plus, there s belief that there aren t black people like me working at the bbc who are ready, willing and able to listen to these types of stories and fight for them to get on the news agenda. and that is a problem. historically, that is a problem at the bbc. but it is difficult to get people to open up about any kind of story like this, but i found it particularly difficult in black communities, yeah. and as you said, tim westwood strongly denies all the allegations. he says, in a career that spanned a0 years, there ve never been any complaints made against him, officially or unofficially, said his spokesperson. do you expect more women to come forward or is this
necessarily the media and how they ve been historically portrayed in negative lights or even stories that matter to the black communities not being given as much prominence in news agendas as other stories. plus, there s belief that there aren t black people like me working at the bbc who are ready, willing and able to listen to these types of stories and fight for them to get on the news agenda. and that is a problem. historically, that is a problem at the bbc. but it is difficult to get people to open up about any kind of story like this, but i found it particularly difficult in black communities, yeah. and as you said, tim westwood strongly denies all the allegations. he says in a career that spanned a0 years, there ve never been any complaints made
to the black communities not being given as much prominence in news agendas as other stories. plus, there s belief that there aren t black people like me working at the bbc who are ready, willing and able to listen to these types of stories and fight for them to get on the news agenda. and that is a problem. historically, that is a problem at the bbc. but it is difficult to get people to open up about any kind of story like this, but i found it particularly difficult in black communities, yeah. and as you said, tim westwood strongly denies all the allegations. he says in a career that spanned a0 years, there ve never been any complaints made against him officially or unofficially, said his spokesperson. do you expect more women to come forward or is this the end of it? as you can imagine, this is as a sad result of this story, and i say sad because,
from the black community, particularly for the bbc perhaps. it is horrendously difficult to get stories like this from the black community. it s not easy. i would argue it s largely through a huge mistrust of black communities and the media, and black communities don t trust necessarily the media and how they ve been historically portrayed in negative lights or even stories that matter to the black communities not being given as much prominence in news agendas as other stories. plus, there s belief that there aren t black people like me working at the bbc who are ready, willing and able to listen to these types of stories and fight for them to get on the news agenda. and that is a problem. historically, that is a problem at the bbc. but it is difficult to get people to open up about any