What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

I've always sensed what a script should sound like - even before the movie's been made

At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.

What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good. Especially in this ever-more complex and difficult world.

Most parliamentarians don't have a clue as regards the challenges or the opportunities the games industry faces.

Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century.