Kay Burley’s explosive return to the political and commentariat scene with her talkative Substack has caused quite a splash. Oh wait – no it hasn’t…
Burley left Sky News in February 2025 but has returned to the British media space with a Substack and numerous X posts per day, often issuing sarky attacks on Reform people. She was even on Newsnight – though that appearance was tarred by her bizarre insistence that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor is a war hero…
Her blog, Burley Alive, has been up for over a month and seen ten articles, doesn’t seen to be capturing the public imagination. Despite Burley’s constant self-promotion…
One piece of analysis concluded:
“I am not tribal with my politics and of course immigration should be debated, robustly, with real numbers and real life expectations, but there is a wide gap between having that debate and creating an atmosphere where anyone who looks or sounds ‘foreign’ becomes a target for someone else’s anger.”
For her efforts Burley has only 428 subscribers – free and paid – at time of going to pixel. Huw Edwards has more than double that…
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”