The top brass at failing two-tier broadcast regulator Ofcom were summoned in front of the DCMS Select Committee on Tuesday for a “The work of Ofcom” session. It was not a notably long session…
Rupa Huq wasted no time in trying to kick up old dirt, having a dig at “political bias, and our old friend GB News.” She complained that “it feels like a lot of coverage and airtime is given to Reform, who triumphed in the elections on Tuesday.” You’ve answered your own question there, Rupa…
Ofcom CEO Melanie Dawes swiftly stepped in, though, to remind the Labour MP “how the rules work” and that it is “incredibly important” for the regulators to protect “freedom of expression and the freedom of the broadcaster to innovate.” Dawes also pointed out that GB News’ compliance record “has been significantly improved.” This follows the High Court’s ruling to overturn two breaches that Ofcom accused GB News of in their judicial review claim…
Following a disastrous set of local election results for Labour, Guido wonders whether its MPs should spend less time shouting into the wind and more time actually reaching the public on channels like GBN. Whinging won’t stop people watching…
Chris Hope has interviewed Kemi for GB News and stopped to show her a video of a “newly arrived Sudanese man who arrived in the past few days, he’s dancing around a rather smart hotel room.” Badenoch shook her head in shock. Disgrace…
GB News reports that 700 migrants have crossed the channel today. Beating the 2025 one-day record of 656 back on Saturday…
Before today there were 8,064 arrivals so far in 2025 according to official data. 46% higher than at the same point last year…
The all-time record is still held by 3 September 2022, when 1,305 people arrived. This latest set of arrivals will push the 2025 figure close to 9,000 for the year so far. Not a record Cooper will want under her belt…
Reynolds has appeared on GB News to discuss tariffs. Ellie Costello asked if the business secretary could provide a time frame for the much-briefed UK-US economic deal. He couldn’t…
“Well, look, I can’t give you a timescale because a lot of that is in the gift of the President of the United States. But on this point about what’s a strong response, right? A strong response is a one that is in the UK’s national interest and our national interest is in doing a deal with the US to remove these pressures and strengthen that relationship that’s not available to every country in the world.“
Earlier he said it was “not inaccurate” to say broad agreement had been reached, which officials say could take months and may not reduce the current tariff rate. The Online Safety Act, which kiboshed previous talks under the Tories, has reared its head again. Ofcom’s cost to the taxpayer can now be measured in percentage points of GDP…
Reynolds went into more detail on the impact of “goods that would have gone to other countries” now coming to the UK and “undercutting” UK goods: “If you think about the steel tariffs that have already been announced, we already have those safeguards in place (a 25% tariff above a quota). So we have our own tariffs, so goods which would have to other countries which come to to the uk to undercut us, we can put those protections in place.” It’s a mercantilist’s world, now…
In its latest bulletin media regulator Ofcom has announced it is abandoning its broadcasting standards case – opened 4 March 2024 – against GB News for an episode of Farage which it claimed violated rules “requiring news and current affairs to be presented with due impartiality, and preventing politicians from acting as news presenters.” It is also abandoning similar cases against David Lammy on LBC, Jake Berry on TalkTV, and others…
This marks the eleventh case against GB News and others abandoned by the regulator since the landmark High Court ruling of last month which found Ofcom had misapplied its own rules in a ‘novel’ way through its campaign against GB. Translation: massively overstepped its mark…
CEO Angelos Frangopoulos says this is “another vindication of GB News editorial decision making.” At the same time Ofcom is launching an investigation into GB News over alleged “hateful” content on a late night show – all at the behest of Jolyon’s Good Law Project. On that one Frangopoulos says of “left-wing pressure groups” that they “shamelessly masquerade as being for the ‘good’ but their words and actions are filled with hate. It’s time to call out this anti-democratic behaviour which includes our staff being falsely accused of homophobia – nothing could be further from the truth.” Another fight on the way…
Left-wing Good Law Project and Stop Funding Hate have been tireless in their censorship campaign against GB News. The Good Law Project rallied its supporters to fill out complaint forms against GB News to send to Ofcom while, conveniently harvesting their data for potential use “to further develop the campaign.” They then did the same again “to stop Sky funding hate speech” by facilitating ads on GB. Meanwhile, Stop Funding Hate is still handing round the begging bowl, urging donors to “help build the fightback against GB News.” A quick look at the books sheds some light on why they’re rattling the tin…
Latest accounts show Jolyon Maugham’s Good Law Project clawed back just £467 in legal costs last year, as its fortunes nosedive under Labour. Once rolling in crowdfunded cash – raking in £1.86 million in 2022 – it scraped together a mere £83,523 through five crowdfunders since July. They closed its vanity law firm, burning through £439,100 on the way down. Stop Funding Hate isn’t faring much better, limping along with a £28,005 net income loss and scrambling to cover its £92,683 campaigning bill via another crowdfunder. Baroness Claire Fox said:
“These revelations show that it’s craven intolerance of media freedom and viewpoint diversity that animates these campaign groups. That these attacks on regulated media outlets are also used by activists to raise cash to fund their continued assaults on free speech, is especially grubby.”
Eyebrows raised over whether targeting the ‘People’s Channel’ is just a handy cash grab as the coffers run dry…
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.”