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…
Robert Jenrick told a rally on Monday:
“They say Chancellors are either undertakers or bookies. This one is an ostrich – and when the Chancellor buries his head in the sand, the rest of us, we’re left staring at his you know what.”