As Guido revealed yesterday, Ofcom rejected the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on biological sex and ordered broadcasters to give airtime to the claim biological men are women when discussing trans. Now Guido has seen the correspondence showing Ofcom initially tried to do so in secret…
In letters between the regulator and GB News, Ofcom said it did not accept the judgement meant the debate is ‘settled’. Ofcom marked its letter ‘Confidential’, not once, but three times across the page…
GB News challenged the decision to make the letter private, stating it should be made public due to the importance of its content and Ofcom’s duty to make their views relating to their Code available to those they regulate. Ofcom backed down. The regulator claimed the inclusion of ‘confidential’ was ‘unintended’ and they don’t consider their position to be confidential after all. When the regulator becomes the regulated…
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.”