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Government needs to help festival organisers, says Isle of Wight MP Isle of Wight MP, Bob Seely, is calling on the Government to launch a pooled reinsurance scheme to help festival organisers to plan with confidence Isle of Wight Conservative MP, Robert Seely, has joined forces with a group of MPs calling on the Government for more support for festivals. During a parliamentary debate on Tuesday (23rd March) Mr Seely called on Culture Minister, Caroline Dinenage, to lobby the Treasury to support a reinsurance scheme. Government-backed reinsurance scheme The Island’s MP argued that a Governme...

The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Events was re-established in November in 2020, with Theresa Villiers MP, Member of Parliament for Chipping Barnet, taking on the role of chair.   Villiers took over from James Heappey MP, who was chair for four years, but stood down once he was appointed Minister for the Armed Forces at the end of 2019.  Officers elected to the group include Robert Largan MP, Mark Menzies MP, Robert Seely MP, Owen Thompson MP, Andrew Slaughter MP, Stephen Hammond MP, Rachel Hopkins MP, and Debbie Abrahams MP. They act as vice chairs. But what does an All-Party Parliamen...

Vilnius at 30—Nothing Must Be Forgotten Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 18 Issue: 6 (Source: Wikimedia Commons) Thirty years ago tomorrow (January 13), Soviet forces fired at unarmed Lithuanians in Vilnius, killing 15 and thereby accelerating the recovery of the full independence of the Baltic countries as well as the demise of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Both the details and the broader lessons of those events are beginning to be forgotten as those who were involved pass from the scene and a new generation, born too recently to remember, has risen to take the...