An extraordinary moment on GB News as small boat migrants arrive in Ramsgate while the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is still on her feet announcing reforms to legal and illegal migration. You couldn’t make it up…
UPDATE: 65 illegal immigrants just disembarked BF Hurricane according to GB News‘ Mark White.
Guido is in favour of this and would like to see more of it. Chris Mason should do his News at Six hit while skydiving and Beth Rigby needs to hop on a pogo stick outside Downing Street. It might save the legacy broadcasters…
Plaid Cymru staff banned Caerphilly by-election winner Lindsay Whittle from speaking to GB News last night… just minutes after he appeared on the channel. And after Whittle thanked GB’s political correspondent Katherine Forster for being the only broadcaster to ask about the late Hefin David…
Moments after interviewing Whittle, Forster revealed Plaid’s press team had decided they now “don’t engage with GB News“:
“He would have come to talk to us again on GB News, but his press team stopped him. They told me, despite the interview that we had done, despite him thanking us, that they do not engage with GB News… Lindsey Whittle obviously was more than happy to do so. But the powers that be implied Plaid Cymru do not want to talk to us.”
Ridiculous…
GB News has beaten both BBC News and Sky News for the third month in a row now. The BARB figures don’t lie…
Here are the all day viewer shares for the last three months:
July
August
September
Private BARB figures show GB News has grown its audience share month on month on month. Tellingly culture minister Stephanie Peacock was full of praises for the channel at its Labour Conference party this year. When the herd moves…
At Labour conference last night, DCMS minister Stephanie Peacock praised GB News for giving a “voice” to her constituents and “championing stories across our nations and regions.” She was joined by a number of Labour MPs and peers at the GB News reception in Browns’ Brasserie…
Her warm words put her at odds with DCMS Secretary Lisa Nandy, who earlier this month claimed the channel was corroding trust in news and undermining the “shared understanding that is the basis of democracy.” Nandy warned: “We’ll look closely at what Ofcom presents to us, but it is an area in which we intend to act”…
Two ministers, two messages. “Polarised” and “fragmented”, in the words of Nandy…
Jolyon declared war on GB News and lost. According to the Good Law Project, the channel’s reporting of the rape gangs scandal was “at odds with government data that reports that only 7% of group-based child sexual exploitation suspects had their ethnicity recorded as ‘Asian'”. Data which was later described by Baroness Casey as “incomplete”, “unreliable”, and a “bloody disaster”…
GB News’ Charlie Peters said this afternoon:
GB News has proudly and bravely pushed against that denial, championing the victims affected by this scandal through countless exclusive reports that have led to political resignations and fresh police investigations… Our coverage reflected the sincerely held views of the British people, which the government eventually caught up on when it ordered an inquiry in June. When it comes to the small boats crisis, recent headline government action and new operational agreements with France represent the importance of this issue. It is a national security crisis that Britons urgently want to see tackled.”
Jolyon and his pals obviously still clinging to the shibboleths of the North London dinner party class on this…
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.”