Liam and Noel Gallagher have reformed Oasis after 15 years.
A government minister has rejected a Labour MP’s call for Ticketmaster to be nationalised in the wake of the chaos experienced by thousands of Oasis fans hoping to see the band’s gigs next year.
Tickets for the band’s first tour in 15 years went on sale yesterday and had completely sold out by Saturday night.
But thousands of fans were left frustrated by technical problems which affected the Ticketmaster website and so-called “in demand pricing” which saw the cost of tickets soar to three times their original value.
The chaos led Zarah Sultana, the Labour MP for Coventry South, to post on X: “Nationalise Ticketmaster.”
On Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips on Sky News this morning, Commons leader Lucy Powell was asked whether she had got Oasis tickets herself and whether she agreed with Sultana.
She said: “I don’t think we need to nationalise Ticketmaster.
“Thankfully, after hours of waiting like many, many other people in a queue, I was able to get a couple of Oasis tickets, but at a bit more than I was hoping to pay for them.”
Ticketmaster has said that the system of in-demand pricing, also known as “dynamic pricing”, is “driven by supply and demand”.
“The goal is to give fans fair and safe access to the best tickets while enabling artists and other people involved in staging live events to price tickets closer to their true market value,” the ticketing website said.
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<img src="https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-loaded/v1/alF-ATMzOyvWA8eA9tgrwnn9ye8UNv30" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Watchdog urges court to deny DOGE request to pause order for information in FOIA suit" title="Watchdog urges court to deny DOGE request to pause order for information in FOIA suit"> <p>A government watchdog group on Friday urged the Supreme Court to deny the Trump administration’s request to pause an order by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that would require the Department of Government Efficiency to provide information in a lawsuit filed under the Freedom of Information Act. Lawyers for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington told the justices that, under the guise of seeking to put the “narrowly-tailored” order on hold, the government was actually asking the court to weigh in on whether DOGE is in fact a government agency subject to FOIA – the question, CREW said, at the center of the dispute. </p> <span id="more-528774"></span> <p>President Donald Trump created DOGE shortly after taking office on Jan. 20. Although it is not a cabinet-level department, it has been broadly involved in the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the size of the federal government. </p> <p>On Jan. 24, CREW filed a request under FOIA for, among other things, communications between Amy Gleason, the DOGE administrator, and DOGE staff. Just under a month later, CREW went to federal court in Washington, seeking documents that it wanted before Congress passed a bill to provide funding for the federal government. </p> <p>As part of its lawsuit, CREW sought to fast-track discovery – the process of exchanging information before trial – to determine whether DOGE is an “agency.” Its requests included a list of current and former DOGE employees, a list of the employees and positions for which DOGE had recommended termination, and a deposition of Gleason. </p> <p>The federal judge overseeing CREW’s lawsuit, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper, granted most of CREW’s discovery requests, including its bid to depose Gleason, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected the government’s plea to put Cooper’s order on hold and halt discovery. </p> <p><a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/05/trump-asks-high-court-to-pause-another-suit-against-doge/">U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer came to the Supreme Court on Wednesday</a>, asking the justices to intervene. Sauer told the court that requiring DOGE to respond to CREW’s discovery requests “clearly violates the separation of powers” and “will significantly distract” from DOGE’s “mission of identifying and eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse in the federal government.” </p> <p>In its filing on Friday, <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24A1122/359521/20250523114320079_24A1122%20-%20Response%20in%20Opposition%20to%20Stay%20Application.pdf">CREW countered</a> that even putting aside the fact that the government has effectively asked the court to rule on the merits of the dispute – that is, whether DOGE is an agency subject to FOIA – Cooper’s order should still remain in place. It contended that the government is ultimately unlikely to prevail (an important criterion when the courts consider whether to grant temporary relief) because the determination whether an entity is an “agency” for purposes of FOIA is a fact-specific inquiry “for which courts have ‘previously endorsed limited discovery.’” </p> <p>Nor, CREW added, will the government be permanently harmed if discovery is allowed to move forward. Indeed, CREW suggested, “the government can raise the full array of objections and privileges available to it in the normal course of discovery.” The Trump administration has the right to file a reply to CREW’s brief. After that, the court could act on the government’s request at any time. </p>
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