The luvvies are having a field day with Nadine Dorries, the new head of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, or as some have nicknamed her, the minister for “culture wars”. Her snootier critics have mocked how someone who writes “clogs and shawls” fiction about Irish Catholic families in 1950s Liverpool could possibly oversee the nation’s higher aesthetics, let alone the BBC’s output.
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