The latest set of GB News’ financial accounts make for happy reading for lovers of a free UK media with the channel’s tv audience share up a stonking 53%. Its radio share up even more…
Less so for the hapless censorship groups such as Stop Funding Hate, who racked up a cool £28,005 net income loss while flapping at brands for the perplexing crime of advertising their services and products to their likely customers. Perhaps a rebrand is in order at SFH: Stop, Find Help…
It will come as no surprise to co-conspirators that business didn’t heed SFH’s loopy advice and instead flocked to GB News in their droves as advertising revenue at the People’s Channel more than doubled over the year to more than £8 million. And this doesn’t even include the wodge from the latest big brands to see sense – M&S, Asda and Heinz…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”