Last month, Guido reported on Ofcom’s decision to fine GB News £100,000 for allowing an audience of its viewers to quiz then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on the policies and performance of his government. That’s a punishment many people would say is way out of kilter with the alleged misdemeanour. GB News is challenging the ruling…
Only last year Ofcom-regulated Ahlebait TV Network was sanctioned for allowing guests to air comments including that charging interest on debt “is why Jews have been expelled from 47 different countries and city-states in the last 1,000 years and as they recognise […] their antisemitism comes from their actions of impoverishing people.” Another guest claimed “antisemitism is actually a Jewish creation.” Its punishment? A £10,000 fine. Oh, and it got to keep its Ofcom TLCS licence…
Lee Anderson, speaking to The Sun’s Tom Scotson, reveals the wokest thing he’s ever done: “I once had a vegetarian thought, about becoming a vegetarian. That was quickly dismissed when I had a bacon sandwich…”