Jolyon Maugham’s Good Law Project is dragging Ofcom to the High Court, aggrieved that the watchdog looked at Murdoch’s TalkTV and mostly declined to throw the book at it. Ofcom investigated one programme, opened separate probes into the channel’s climate coverage, but refused to pursue the rest, setting out its reasons in an 86-page report. Not good enough for GLP, who want a judge to overrule the regulator’s own editorial judgement…
By GLP’s own account, barristers’ costs are “estimated to exceed £50,000” and “if we lose the case, we will likely have to pay Ofcom and TalkTV’s legal fees, which are likely to exceed £100,000.” And the small print: “10% of the funds raised will be a contribution to the general running costs of Good Law Project.” Got to keep the staff in frappucinos…
This is the same outfit that weeks ago moaned Ofcom was too slow on GB News, complaining: “if regulation takes this long to come, is it really regulation?” Now it wants the same regulator to take rival stations off air…
Badenoch said at her speech on Monday morning: “We are absolutely ready to fight a general election. We saw the results in Aberdeen South: 50% of the vote. Because we can unite the country… It’s about uniting the country, for God’s sake, behind a centre-right agenda.”