The News Agents hosts Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel are providing their usual incisive analysis of the media landscape by discovering that Tory MP presenters on GB News talk about politics. Sopel whined that he wouldn’t have a problem with them doing travel programmes:

“Jacob Rees-Mogg takes the bus. That would be fine. I’d have no problem with it. But it’s Jacob Rees-Mogg doing politics.” Jacob Rees-Mogg taking the bus would be more entertaining than Sopel and Maitlis’ snoozefest…

Sopel’s complaint also misses the point in the Ofcom investigations, which is whether programmes slip out of politics and into news. Emily Maitlis says that Ofcom is scared of GB News – tell that to the 21 spats they’ve had in the last two years. Sopel then goes on to point out that GB News is “swashbuckling” while “the rest of broadcasting seems to be playing by the rules“. That doesn’t apply to when his own co-presenters were still employed by them…