Secretary of State for Culture, Media, and Sport Andy Burnham of United Kingdom

Government is moving away from thinking online is ungovernable.
Burnham said the internet would not look anything the way it does with advertising, so advertising has an important role to play in underpinning quality content that parents are confident of giving to their children.
Andy Burnham was born in Liverpool, the son of a telephone engineer father and a receptionist mother, and raised in Culcheth, Warrington, close to the village of Lowton (which is at the southern end of the Leigh Parliamentary Constituency.
In the government reshuffle of 5 May 2006, Burnham was promoted from the Home Office to a Minister of State at the Department of Health.
In Gordon Brown's first cabinet announced 28 June 2007, Burnham was promoted to Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
Burnham was alleged to have caused embarrassment to the Government in August 2007 by attacking the Conservative party's Economic Competitiveness report before admitting in an interview that he had not read the report.
Burnham was the honorary Chairman of Leigh Rugby League Club for a short period of time.
Burnham was also a talented junior cricketer and keen footballer, and competed at both sports for his College.
The British Culture Secretary Andy Burnham has purposed that the US and the UK stand together (like they did with iraq and messed it up) to filter the internet.
From parents to politiciansit seems everyone has an opinion about how to keep the internet safe for kids.
Film-style age ratings could be applied to websites to protect children from harmful and offensive material, Culture Secretary Andy Burnham has said.
Andy Burnham, the United Kingdoms minister of culture, says the country is contemplating the use of a rating system for websites.
The UK sure does have one impressively clueless culture secretary in Andy Burnham.
Andy Burnham says he wants to negotiate with the Obama administration to find a way to restrict access to content he finds objectionable.
it seems Andy Burnham was just having a light-hearted joke about it.
Andy Burnham is himself a 'light-hearted joke' of a Minister of State.
Burnham married Marie-France van Heel in 2000 after 11 years together, and their son attended the wedding.
As the Leigh Labour MP, born locally and living in the constituency, Andy Burnham has a unique understanding of local issues.
No, the comments in the article suggest that, like Australia, Mr Burnham is working up to requiring ISPs to install Government-approved censorship hardware on everyone’s Internet connection - hardware that is intended to restrict what adults can see, not just children.
BiographyAndy Burnham was appointed as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in January 2008.
4 CEO Andy Burnham said today that a C4/Channel 5 partnership would be like “mixing oil with water.
Culture Secretary Andy Burnham has set up a panel, to be chaired by Brookside creator Phil Redmond, who took over the running of Liverpool’s year, to look.
Channel 4CEO Andy Burnham said today that a C4/Channel 5 partnership would be like mixing oil with water.
Culture Secretary Andy Burnham has suggested age-rating websites.
Culture Secretary Andy Burnham is set to invite cities to compete every four years for the new accolade.
Earlier this month, culture secretary Andy Burnham said Britain will enter a “golden decade of sport” in 2009 and has called.
In other areas, Burnham has hinted at tougher controls of online content, and said the government would reject European Union moves to allow product placement on UK television.
An occasional guitarist in parliamentary rock group MP4, Burnham is married to former BSkyB marketeer Marie-France van Heel, who he met at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
Andy Burnham is the Labour MP for Leigh and was appointed Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in January 2008.
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Andy Burnham says he believes that new standards of decency need to be applied to the web.
which is at the southern end of the Leigh Parliamentary Constituency.
Minister of State at the Department of Health.
in an interview that he had not read the report.
and their son attended the wedding.
was "genuinely taken aback" by how his comments have been interpreted.
letter would draw a line under the affair.
The UK Culture Secretary Andy Burnham has presented, in an interview with The Daily Telegraph at the end of the last year, some new plans in adopting to the web "new standards of decency.
Andy Burnham is MP for Leigh, a safe Labour seat in northern England.
Burnham has been a vocal supporter of biometric national ID cards since at least February 2003, when in a letter to The Guardian he stated that "the supposed dangers are overplayed.
Gowers response to Burnham is worth reading in its entirety, as it skewers pretty much every point that Burnham put forth.
But, Burnham is making a totally fallacious argument: that if you're not getting paid directly and repeatedly for the work, then there's some sort of moral code broken.
The musicians who recorded performances fifty years ago entered into a deal with the public -- the public that Burnham is supposed to be representing, though he seems to think he represents the artists.
community better by becoming secular.
increase secular interest in our church heritage.
night phone chats with Ms Chakrabarti before quitting as an MP on Wednesday.
on capital punishment and civil liberties.
Street reception for London Fashion Week.
Burnham has chosen to be interviewed here.
now is not the time for a leadership contest.
There are currently one trillion web addresses in Google’s index of the web.
Either of these ideas would be by far a more constructive project and lead to marked benefits to the UK digital economy and are precisely the kind of ambitious projects that only Mr Burnham is positioned to undertake.
LONDON, Jan 5 (UPI) -- The British government agreed to double the possible stakes and prizes for slot machines, but religious leaders panned the concept.
LONDON, Dec 27 (UPI) -- British Culture Secretary Andy Burnham says his country and the world should employ a ratings system for Internet sites akin to movie ratings.
LONDON, June 7 (UPI) -- British Culture Secretary Andy Burnham was a member of a college club whose members did a lot of heavy drinking, an old friend says.
Andy Burnham is the new enemy of Freedom.
Blighty’s culture secretary Andy Burnham said he intended to tighten controls on English-language websites and that he would negotiate with.
Burnham said that a decade of investment has set up a prosperous.
ASKED if the picture taken of him with Culture Secretary Andy Burnham was the stupidest photo opportunity he has ever taken part in, Schools Secretary Ed Balls says it’s a close run thing between this and “the video of me trying to break the MPs.
Desc': 'Andy Burnham is interviewed on the BBC recommending a debate about regulating the internet in the same way as other media is.