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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 ....
And for a couple of days, no one had the real name, and we did have rumours swirling around of who it would be. and i think that might be partly part of the reason why neil had to come out and say it was him, because other tory male mps were being rung up and being told, we ve been told it s you, is it you? so, you were having people accused of doing something that hadn t actually done, so it was quite awkward i think for the parliamentary party to be put through that. and were those people being called up because they were on a list of, was it people who might do this sort of thing or were people calling everybody? no, i think probably more the former. interesting, 0k. well, this story is for us as an opportunity to find out more about the culture of politicaljournalism at westminster. and eleanor langford, let me bring you in here because you re a reporter for the website politics home and you re relatively new to the lobby. i wonder what your experience in this field is. ....
Had been watching porn, did you know it was only a matter of time before the name emerged? presumably all lobby journalists and other journalists were chasing that. yeah, you re right, like once you report that, a massive can of worms opens and everyone is trying to chase the name. and for a couple of days, no one had the real name, and we did have rumours swirling around of who it would be. and i think that might be partly part of the reason why neil had to come out and say it was him, because other tory male mps were being rung up and being told, we ve been told it s you, is it you? so, you were having people accused of doing something that hadn t actually done it, so it was quite awkward i think for the parliamentary party to be put through that. and were those people being called up because they were on a list of, was it people who might do this sort of thing or were people calling everybody? no, i think probably more the former. interesting, 0k. well, this story is for us as an ....
Spreading around of who it would be. and i think that might be partly part of the reason why neil had to come out and say it was him, because other tory male mps were being rung up and being told, we ve been told it s you, is it you? so, you are having people accused of doing something that had not actually done, so it was quite awkward i think for the parliamentary party to be put through that. and those people being called up because they were on a list of, was it people who might do this sort of thing or were people calling everybody? no, i think probably more the former. interesting, 0k. well, this story is for us as an opportunity to find out more about the culture of politicaljournalism at westminster. and eleanor langford, i m going to bring you in here because you re a reporter for the website politics home and you re relatively new to the lobby. i wonder what your experience in this field is. it s been interesting, one, because ijoined politics about two years ago, and obvio ....
Well, this story is for us as an opportunity to find out more about the culture of politicaljournalism at westminster. and eleanor langford, i m going to bring you in here because you re a reporter for the website politics home and you re relatively new to the lobby. i wonder what your experience in this field is. it s been interesting, one, because ijoined politics about two years ago, and obviously we had the pandemic for a lot of that time, so not actually time, so i couldn t actually going to parliament and i could not experience the culture there or much of the drinking after hours. it s only around august, so about the last eight months i ve really been exposed to this. and also, i have my comparisons to how it was before, but it did surprise me how quickly once the parliament opened, i started to see some odd behaviour from mps, ranging from, like, drunken behaviour in the bars and arguments up to hearing about sexual harassment and experiencing inappropriate comments. so, it wa ....