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Saudi Arabia boosts global charm offensive with 2025 Cultural Investment Conference

Saudi Arabia has further signalled its determination to diversify its assets by hosting a global conference to discuss investing in culture, its role in economic and social development and strengthening national identity.

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Mondiacult ends with promises and pledges to spread peace through culture

This week Barcelona played host to Mondiacult, UNESCO's World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development. AI, climate change and commitments to peace were top talking points...

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Government announces UK Town of Culture competition

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy told the Labour party conference the scheme will celebrate ‘creativity, history and identity’.

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Culture Secretary tells STV he is ‘deeply concerned’ about proposed cuts

Angus Robertson has written to the broadcaster’s chief executive Rufus Radcliffe.

Evening Standard

What we know about plans to introduce digital IDs

All UK citizens and everyone who wants to work in the UK will have to have one.

Evening Standard

All UK citizens will have digital ID but only to prove right to work – Nandy

The Culture Secretary said the cards will be compulsory for anyone who wants to work in the UK.

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UK politics live: Starmer says next election will be ‘open fight’ between Labour and Reform

More than 800,000 people have signed a petition against the ID cards

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Lisa Nandy says BBC is one of only broadcasters able to shine spotlight on Gaza

Speaking on the Media Confidential podcast, the Culture Secretary insisted on the importance of public service broadcasters upholding high standards.

Evening Standard

SNP ministers attack BBC over 'false' article on Scottish train services

SCOTLAND’S Culture Secretary has accused the BBC of “totally misleading” audiences with its presentation of a story on UK rail travel ...

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Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy says BBC is ‘best defence against toxic populism’

Ms Nandy praised the broadcaster despite it facing a number of criticisms over the past year – including from herself.

Evening Standard

Culture Secretary Angus Robertson urges BBC to join Eurovision boycott

CULTURE Secretary Angus Robertson has urged the BBC to join a boycott of Eurovision over its inclusion of Israel

The National (Scotland)

Solving AI and copyright issue ‘will not be kicked into long grass’, says Nandy

The Culture Secretary told MPs that the debate on artificial intelligence and its impact on creatives had become binary and promised a new approach.

Evening Standard

IKEA but no ABBA? Outcry as Sweden publishes controversial cultural heritage list

Critics argue that the “shared map” of Swedish culture, which snubs anything since 1975, is “exclusionary” and a “nationalist education project”. Here's why.

Euronews

Culture minister says ‘biggest anxiety’ is public service broadcasters’ budgets

The commissioning budgets of PSBs have been ‘squeezed’, according to a report.

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French bill clears path to return artefacts looted during colonisation

A bill to make it easier for France to return cultural objects taken during the colonial period was presented at a ministerial council in Paris this week by Culture Minister Rachida Dati. Despite a pledge by President Emmanuel Macron in Burkina Faso in 2017, and follow-up reports, only a small…

International Business Times

Rome, Navalny Widow Blast Italy Invite For Pro-Kremlin Maestro

Italy's culture minister joined the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Tuesday in condemning an invitation for maestro Valery Gergiev to perform near Naples, saying it risked being propaganda for Moscow.

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The Bayeux Tapestry to be displayed in UK for first time in nearly 1,000 years

The treasured 11th-century artwork will be on loan from France - a move that has been described by the UK Culture Secretary as "a symbol of our shared history with our friends in France, a relationship built over centuries and one that continues to endure."

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Evening Standard

Lisa Nandy says she asked BBC why nobody was fired for airing Gaza documentary

A review looking into Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone is due to be published later this week.

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BBC boss Tim Davie under mounting pressure in Glastonbury 'hate chant' row after it emerges he didn't pull livestream

BBC Director General was at Glastonbury when Bob Vylan chanted ‘death, death to the IDF’ and was consulted on what to do about broadcaster’s coverage

Evening Standard

Sam Fender and Chappell Roan help bring £1.2bn tourism boost to North West

Sam Fender, Chappell Roan and the Foo Fighters brought music tourists to Manchester, while Taylor Swift’s tour brought overseas fans to the UK.

The Independent UK

Project to reinterpret slave trader statues in London launched

The City of London Corporation has launched a project to reinterpret the statues of slave traders.

The National (Scotland)

Scottish Government announces £3 million in funding for 14 festivals

The Scottish Government has awarded £3 million in funding to 14 festivals, the Culture Secretary has announced

Evening Standard

Creative industries to get £380m boost ahead of industrial strategy launch

The investment was announced by Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy.

Evening Standard

Starmer wishes Lionesses luck ahead of Women’s Euro 2025 tournament

The Prime Minister announced plans for new school sport partnerships as he met the England women’s team at St George’s Park.

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