The former Sky News political editor Adam Boulton has said GB News should lose its broadcasting licence as he accused Britain’s media regulator of failing in its duty to protect impartial television news.
If we define impartial as what I like then anyone who says stuff I don’t like shouldn’t be allowed to, right?
From the few scribbles I see from Boulton he seems a fully entitled lefty. And a smug cunt too boot. Just like David Aaronovitch.
With few exceptions, LBC’s Nick Ferrari being the only one that springs to mind, the mainstream media is dominated by fully entitled smug lefty cunts.
At a slight tangent I read yesterday that another bbc senior employee, a producer this time, has been found guilty of downloading thousands of kiddy porn images. Like many of his nonce mates he found a friendly judge and avoided jail.
I assume he will keep his bbc pension.
Is he still married to Anji Hunter?
Odd: After graduating in 1987 (Wiki, Groki says 1988)…but born in 1955, so 32 when she graduated and presumably studying when the children of her first marriage were just starting school.
Maybe odder now, with it being so normalised to run off to uni at 18 even if you don’t have a clue what you want to do with it. Having kids first and then thinking what you want to do with your life and career isn’t such a stupid idea. Gives you motivation. Don’t have to like the woman’s views to recognise she was quite deft at understanding the public mood – can’t have hurt she had seen way more “real life” than most people fresh out of yooni.
Indeed but I’d venture that most married women become mature students when the kids are off their hands. What I find curious is that she chose that course of action (at Brighton Poly) when her sprogs were pre-school age, usually a fairly busy time for mothers, but presumably could afford the necessary hired help.
After a bit more digging, it appears she was also working for A Blair at the time. Definitely an interesting woman.
In my experience it’s not so uncommon as you might think for women to return to education while kids are pre school age. I think the big blocker is kids being pre nursery age. Even there, as you point out, there are solutions – her family would be well off enough to afford them, she went to some very plum schools.
Fat cunt. Move on.
These are the same people going nuts over proposed changes in various central European countries.
Hypocrites the lot of them.
He wants the state to put a major competitor out of business, for entirely selfless reasons of course.
Anger and Bargaining. The Reformation rolls on. We spoke previously about how British politics was reforming around a pro-Nigel/anti-Nigel axis, with the current establishment desperate at all costs to Stop Reform.
So the rat-faced man seethes because Reform and the ~30% of British adults who currently support them have a news channel that’s not politically hostile to them. Hopes a higher power (Ofcom) will make it the Aughties again, when impartially progressive leftists controlled the editorial stance of every tv news broadcast, instead of just nearly all of them.
But the headline image the Guardian chose to illustrate the story isn’t subtle. It’s a photo of President Trump (booo!) being interviewed by Nigel Farage (hiss!) on GB News (grr!).
That’s the sort of thing they object to. Not “impartiality” (lol), but people like Nigel Farage and the President of America having a normal interview on British tv without some lemon-sucking knob constantly interrupting to ask gotcha questions and accuse them of being racist.
Because it’s Britain, the Stop Reform efforts are often passive-aggressive: trying to cancel elections, banning certain types of donations just because they noticed Reform benefiting, the media trying to spin Reform’s stunning and unprecedented victories in the locals as anything but another astonishing triumph for Farage. That annoying, nicotine-grinning man whom Nobody Likes, yet finds people wanting to shake his hand and vote for his parties everywhere he goes.
Farage occupies the same free headspace they give to Trump. They’re thinking about him, even when they’re not. You can feel it as a racing pulse through most of The Guardian’s opinionista columns these days. It’s like an Auden poem.
In dark suburbs,
Beside pale-green LEZ zones.
Men long for George Monbiot.
(stop reform, stop reform, stop reform)
I’m thinking Jethro Tull:
Oh, dear Prime Minister it’s all such a mess.
Go right ahead and pull the rotten tooth.
Oh, Mr. President you’ve been put to the test.
Come clean, for once, and hit us with the truth.
Looking for sunshine oh but it’s black and it’s cold
Yet, you say that milk and honey’s just round the bend.
Giving us a hard time, my friends
handing us the same line again.
I’m sure his twenty year (so far) marriage to Anji Hunter, Blair’s best mate from childhood and Number 10 comms chief, in no way impacts his views
I don’t want impartial news if it means the incumbents can decide some subjects are off limits eg the BBC and climate change, rape gangs and the religion and culture of a vast majority of the participants.
That is *by definition* partial news.