Lisa Nandy doesn’t appear to understand her own new proposals to starve independent news publishers and promote state-owned ones. Know-nothing Nandy…
At the Culture, Media, and Sport Select Committee yesterday Damian Hinds asked about the potential problems within the Media Green Paper that could see prominence for ‘Public Service Broadcasters’ but not commercial news publishers. Guido revealed Labour’s soviet-style plans in April…
Nandy was insistent that the green paper was a “TV green paper” that “increased people’s access to high-quality television content” and was not a “news green paper.” Thereby not understanding the actual content of said green paper…
In the same discussion Nandy said that the government wanted to increase access to “high-quality print media from an earlier age,” which is not referenced in the green paper. Freewheeling…
The government strategy as written risks promoting news stories broken by the newspapers below copies of those stories by ‘PSBs’ like the BBC – removing incentive for original reporting – unless news publishers sign up new regulation. Cuckoo…
Former Treasury minister and adviser to Burnham in the Makerfield campaign Lord Jim O’Neill, who has turned down a role in his government, said Burnham’s first statement Commons was:
“The last thing investors wanted to hear… gilt yields have risen by a 0.25% in one day, which is a lot. We’ve not had that since Liz Truss days… If your country is under the focus of ‘can they come up with a sensible fiscal strategy’ on a day when the markets think ‘well no, you’re not showing any sign of it’ you’re going to have a tough day…if it stays like this your mortgage rate is going up.”