Derek Murray Wyatt (born 4 December 1949) is a British politician, and Labour Member of Parliament for Sittingbourne and Sheppey in Kent, first elected in 1997, having previously been a councillor in the London Borough of Haringey. December 4th redirects here. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      A politician is an individual who is a formally recognized and active member of a government, or a person who influences the way a society is governed through an understanding of political power and group dynamics. ... The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal political party of the left in England, Scotland and Wales. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... Sittingbourne and Sheppey is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... coat of Arms of Kent For other uses, see Kent (disambiguation). ... A councillor is a member of a council (such as a city council), particularly in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and other parts of the Commonwealth. ... The London Borough of Haringey is a London borough in North London, England, and forms part of Outer London. ...

Wyatt is chairman of the House of Commons all party internet group. He advocates forcing internet service providers (ISPs) through licensing to take steps to block spam before it arrives in inboxes. The MP wants Ofcom, the communications regulator, to take responsibility for licensing internet service providers - and fine those who fail to meet agreed standards. A Chairman is the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or other deliberative body. ... The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... “ISP” redirects here. ... E-mail spam is a subset of spam that involves sending nearly identical messages to numerous recipients by e-mail. ... Ofcom is a regulator for communication industries in the United Kingdom. ... The term communications is used in a number of disciplines: Communications, also known as communication studies is the academic discipline which studies communication, generally seen as a mixture between media studies and linguistics. ...

He was on the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee from 1997-2005; he currently chairs six all party committees in the House of Commons. In the critical votes on Iraq voted against intervention.

He won an ISPA Hero's Award (2006) for his work on seeing the Computer Misuse Act onto the statute book and the New Statesman Award (2006) for the best web site of an Elected Representative. Politicsonline nominated him as one of the top ten visionaries in the internet space also in 2006. Back in 2004 he was voted, in an online poll, as one of the top 100 Internet Visionaries. He founded the Oxford Internet Institute in 2000. The Oxford Internet Institute (OII) is a multi-disciplinary institute based at the University of Oxford in England, and housed in Balliol College, Oxford. ...

In the 2005 general election, he won the 3rd smallest majority of any MP, at just 79 votes, after 2 recounts. This was somewhat fortuitous, as the initial count of votes put his Conservative opponent ahead by 118 votes but two piles of votes for Wyatt had mistakenly be awarded to his opponent. The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005. ...

His web site (www.derekwyatt.co.uk) is currently updated 4-5 times a day and receives upwards of 120,000 hits a week with about 17,000 unique visitors.

Wyatt was educated at Westcliff County High School, Colchester Royal Grammar School, St Luke's College, Exeter (Certificate of Education 1971), the Open University (BA in Art and Architecture 1978), and St Catherine's College, Oxford, where he was a research student 1981-82. Westcliff-on-Sea is a town in southeast Essex, England, within the administrative boundaries of the Borough of Southend-on-Sea. ... The school gardens Colchester Royal Grammar School (CRGS) is a grammar school in Colchester, Essex, founded in 1206 AD and granted two Royal Charters by Henry VIII (in 1539) and by Elizabeth I (in 1584). ... The University of Exeter is a leading red brick university. ... The Certificate in Education (Cert Ed) is a qualification for teachers in the United Kingdom. ... The Open University (OU) is the UKs open learning university. ... A B.A. issused as a certificate Bachelor of Arts (B.A., BA or A.B.), from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus is an undergraduate bachelors degree awarded for either a course or a program in the liberal arts or the sciences, or both. ... Full name St Catherines College Motto Nova et Vetera The New and the Old Named after Previous names St. ...

He played rugby for Oxford University RFC, England, and Barbarians. He has authored five books on rugby and one on film. He is a trustee of Major Stanley's, TimeBank and Citizen's Online. The Oxford University Rugby Football Club (Oxford University RFC or OURFC) is the rugby union club of Oxford University. ... First international (also the worlds first) Scotland 4 - 1 England (27 March 1871) Largest win England 134 - 0 Romania (17 November 2001) Worst defeat Australia 76 - 0 England (6 June 1998) World Cup Appearances 5 (First in 1987) Best result Champions, 2003 The England national rugby union team (also... First match Hartlepool Rovers 4 - 9 Barbarians (27 December 1890) Largest win Scotland 31 - 74 Barbarians (24 May 2001) Worst defeat Barbarians 0 - 42 Wales (26 May 2004) The original Barbarians The Barbarian Football Club, typically referred to as Barbarians and nicknamed the Baa-Baas, is an invitational rugby union...

External links

• Derek Wyatt MP official site
• Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Derek Wyatt MP
• TheyWorkForYou.com - Derek Wyatt MP
• Open Rights Group - Derek Wyatt MP
• Derek Wyatt's YouTube Channel
• Culture, Media and Sport Committee Press Notice No 1 of Session 2001-02 (23 July 2001)