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John Whittingdale MP

Post by John Upham » Tue May 12, 2015 12:05 pm

The newly appointed Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport is John Whittingdale MP (Maldon, 60.6%).

Is anything known about his attitudes towards chess, chess in schools etc?

Is there a chess club for Maldon that could perhaps invite his honorary membership?
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Re: John Whittingdale MP

Post by John McKenna » Tue May 12, 2015 1:40 pm

All I've heard is that he is not very well disposed towards the BBC and wants to revamp/defang the licence fee?!
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Re: John Whittingdale MP

Post by John McKenna » Tue May 12, 2015 5:26 pm

He has visited Radley College, which does have some chess activity that can be seen if 'chess' is put in the search box in the link below -

http://www.radley.org.uk/NewsArticle.aspx?id=436
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