GB News has hit back against Ofcom’s decision to uphold complaints about shows hosted by Tory MPs Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, Esther McVey and Phillip Davies after the media regulator found five episodes breached broadcasting rules. The broadcaster has more on its website.
Ofcom announced the five episodes broke set rules due to politicians “acting as news presenters”.
However, GB News stressed the media watchdog’s ruling is based on arbitrary changes to how Ofcom determines impartiality.
A GB News spokesman said: “We are deeply concerned by the decisions Ofcom has made today.
“We will raise this directly with the regulator in the strongest possible terms.
“Ofcom is obliged by law to promote free speech and media plurality and to ensure that alternative voices are heard.
“Its latest decisions, in some cases a year after the programme aired, contravene those duties.
“Extraordinarily, Ofcom has determined that a programme which it acknowledges was impartial and lacking in any expression of opinion, still somehow breaches its impartiality rules just because an imaginary viewer might think otherwise.
“Ofcom has now arbitrarily changed the test so that it is no longer ‘Was it impartial?’ but ‘Could someone think it might not be?’
“This is a chilling development for all broadcasters, for freedom of speech, and for everyone in the United Kingdom.
“These decisions go against established precedent and raises serious questions about Ofcom’s oversight over its own regulations.
“It appears that Ofcom is trying to extend the regulations, rather than enforcing definitions which have been settled for many years.”
He added: “GB News is a regulated broadcast channel and takes its obligations very seriously.”
Worth reading in full.
The issue, apparently, is that politicians may host current affairs shows but are not allowed to host news programmes – and Ofcom claims the MPs’ shows would be understood by viewers as news programmes.
All five programmes in question contained a mix of news and current affairs content. We found that host politicians acted as newsreaders, news interviewers or news reporters in sequences which clearly constituted news – including reporting breaking news events – without exceptional justification. News was, therefore, not presented with due impartiality.
Stop Press: Jacob Rees-Mogg has responded to the ruling: “Old fashioned is usually good but Ofcom is antediluvian.”
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/02/uk-riots-the-agenda-becomes-clear/
Kit Knightly, a superb analysis of the state’s reaction to the riots. Yes, we are being played.
“For the cost of one broken wall and a burnt out police van, the new “Labour” government have just won public approval for new police powers and open season being called on what remains of our free speech – and they get to distract from the now-inevitable tax raises too.
Not a bad trade.”
Did you notice that the yellow Southport Police Riot vans were really old 03 plates ,the whole thing is starting to whiff ! One month of Starmergeddon & it’s been a full on indigenous stoke up before & after the 27/7/24 gathering in Trafalger Square !!
IMO, the bullyboys ‘yob’ element were bought, paid for and shipped in to create as much carnage as possible. Purpose, to avert any sympathies towards ‘regular’ people who are quite rightly publicly protesting that ‘enough is enough’.Yobs = Government dirty tricks brigade in action, again.
I agree. These riots play right into the hands of people wanting more State control.
I understand the argument, but it’s a paradox. It basically goes like this: We are being driven against our will into a tolatarian state. The emerging tolatarian state will not put up with the masses resisting the inevitable outcome of a tolatarian state and will, therefore, enact a tolatarian state.
The tolatarian state has 100% chance of being without the masses revolting, but has less than 100% chance of being with the masses revolting. Of course, they do not want you to think like this. Only dumb peasants revolt.
https://www.thomasfazi.com/p/the-most-important-speech-of-the
And here is the Global Research version:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/orban-insight-global-systemic-transition-hungarian-grand-strategy/5864348
https://www.globalresearch.ca/there-never-was-a-virus-there-never-was-a-pandemic/5841105
As Dr Mike Yeadon keeps pointing out…there never was a pandemic.
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The most important speech of the decade?
‘Comrades of the Central Committee, comrade students, comrade members of the
party, members of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, of the
leadership of the……. .Women’s Federation, of the unions–workers all,
gathered here tonight:
It appears that the steps are not large enough for all the representatives
of the revolutionary forces who are attending this event. I wish to begin
by telling you that the speech tonight is going to be a boring speech. It
is going to be a boring speech because we find it necessary to enumerate a
series of facts and figures for the purpose of showing what we intend to
do. It will be necessary for all of you to pay the greatest attention
because always, when one deals with figures and numbers, it is necessary to
concentrate one’s attention if one does not wish to become too bored or to
not understand…………’
Errr…..sorry, Comrades…..bit of a mix up…….that was, in fact, Fidel Castro in 1968 but, don’t worry, Orban used the same text and I must have nodded off….anyway, here it is so you can read it for yourself….worth reading in full……..
http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/castro/db/1968/19680314.html
Are you OK?
This crept in under the radar but I was surprised that it was not mentioned in the DS. Predicable I know but Mark Steyn loses his case against Ofcom https://www.steynonline.com/14498/ofcom-wins
I saw it , he was doomed probably for highlighting our new Prime Minister Starmers non intervention in the groom ing scandal back when he was DOPP !
Bots sleep late! Sorry , there handlers don’t keep human hours!
Am I alone in thinking it’s very strange that Kemi Badenoch of all people should be arguing that integration doesn’t work?
She is a politician. Logic doesn’t apply.
I can’t read the article but the headline is that she says we should stop pretending it has worked (probably what she means is that we should stop pretending it has happened). Strange? Ironic? In some ways maybe – but given the current political climate it’s much easier for an immigrant, especially a non-white immigrant, to get away with saying that. As it is she’ll probably get called an Uncle Tom or whatever that other insult is that they use (black on the outside, white on the inside).
What has Sunderland done to deserve all this attention?
From the horse’s mouth a week ago.
“Syrskyi is Ukraine’s new commander-in-chief. His unenviable task is to defeat a bigger Russian army. Two and half years into Vladimir Putin’s full-scale onslaught, he acknowledges the Russians are much better resourced. They have more of everything: tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, soldiers. Their original 100,000-strong invasion force has grown to 520,000, he said, with a goal by the end of 2024 of 690,000 men. The figures for Ukraine have not been made public.
“When it comes to equipment, there is a ratio of 1:2 or 1:3 in their favour,” he said. Since 2022 the number of Russian tanks has “doubled” – from 1,700 to 3,500. Artillery systems have tripled, and armoured personnel carriers gone up from 4,500 to 8,900. “The enemy has a significant advantage in force and resources,” Syrskyi said. “Therefore, for us, the issue of supply, the issue of quality, is really at the forefront.”
It is this man and machine superiority that explains recent events on the battlefield. Since last autumn Ukraine’s armed forces have been going steadily backwards.”
Guardian July 24th
Ah – the Guardian is just a Putin stooge. We all know the Russian forces, like their economy, are in tatters.
Russia’s latest large-scale offensive in Ukraine has been underway for 10 months now. It has not led to the collapse of Ukrainian defenses, and the Kremlin’s territorial gains fall well short of the campaign’s desired aims.
‘In 10 months of slow advances, Russian troops have achieved only modest successes. A breakthrough with strategic consequences has proved impossible…….At the offensive’s current pace (which has remained almost unchanged since its early days), it would take roughly 15 years for Russia to achieve President Putin’s declared goals: the capture of Ukraine’s entire Donbas, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions.
‘They kept saying everything was going well and that Ukrainian soldiers were being captured in droves…..Everyone in my room just laughed at such nonsense.’
Kyiv’s forces intend to exhaust the Russian army, inflicting as many losses as possible.’
Meanwhile, Ukraine is capable of producing more than three million drones per year. The country has sufficient production capabilities for that quantity already……
‘…..a massive overnight drone assault targeted critical military facilities in Russia’s Rostov region early morning on Saturday, August 3, striking the Morozovsk military airfield and fuel tanks at the Atlas plant. drones targeted an aviation ammunition depot at the Morozovsk airfield, resulting in multiple detonations and fires.’
Oops! Treble hard hats all round, comrades…….
Clearly Syrskyi sees it differentely, and he has just a minor role as head of the Uke armed forces, whereas of course Munro is the fount of all knowledge, especially that which exists in the mind of Putin.
‘Year of resilience: If Ukraine holds out in 2024, experts believe Russia will never be able to achieve victory in the war
Experts from the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Jack Watling and Nick Reynolds, believe that Russia expects to achieve victory in the war during 2024–2025……..Currently, Moscow is managing to replenish its arsenal with reserves of weapons and equipment being repaired and modernised at defence industry enterprises. However, by 2025, this resource will be largely depleted. At the same time, by then, the West will have deployed new production of ammunition and military equipment. If the West helps Ukraine to withstand 2024, the experts believe that Russia is unlikely to achieve its victory strategy in 2025. By this time, Kyiv may have prepared significant professional military reserves, including junior command reserves, which will largely neutralise Russia’s numerical manpower advantage…….
Prominent military experts Michael Kofman, Rob Lee, and Dara Massicot also believe that 2024 will determine the future trajectory of the war…….if the West continues to provide assistance, Ukraine will be able to effectively resist Russian forces this year and will gain battlefield advantages for conducting large-scale offensive operations in the next year.’
‘In principle, the enemy has not made any significant progress…….But I know that we will win. I know how I have to do it. And I’m sure that we will do it……We will do everything we can to reach the internationally recognised borders of 1991 [when Ukraine voted for independence from the USSR]. We have to win … to liberate our citizens who are in the occupied territories, who are suffering.’
Col Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi
03 Aug. 2024
‘The latest operation involved missile units and the Naval Forces of Ukraine, resulting in significant damage to four S-400 “Triumph” launchers. In addition, the attack targeted the Russian Black Sea Fleet submarine “Rostov-on-Don” in the port of Sevastopol. The submarine sank on the spot following the strike.’
I wonder how they managed to do that?
Haven’t you noticed it is a war. Both sides have losses in war. The side that ends with least losses generally wins.
What would be terminal for Russia would be if these incidents were happening regularly. They are not.
Welby ‘Ending Israel’s occupation of Palestine is moral necessity’.Has he got a Bible?
Has he read it?
Over 600 mentions of Jerusalem.
Jesus, a Jew, was born, lived and ministered in Judea and Samaria.
King David effectively founded Israel in Jerusalem, Solomon built its first permanent Temple 3000 years ago.
Biblically, historically, archaeologically, morally, Welby is wrong.
As the curse says in the Maker’s Handbook, ‘may all who hate Zion be ashamed and sent backward’.
Welby is a “Wrong un” more like ! Another globalist install !
Hear, hear.
The remnants of the Ottoman Empire weren’t colonialists, apparently.
A detailed explanation of the state of the middle-east in the late Ottoman period, untainted by modern politics, is W. M. Thomson’s The Land and the Book, of 1881. It demolished the idea of a unified Arab state called Paelestine, and accounts for those seldom-mentioned minorities like the Druze, native Christians, Maronites, Bedouin and, of course, Jews, all of whom had their stake in the land, and most of whom have been displaced by the Arabs.
Now, how about returning to the 21st century or do you want all the world’s occupants to retrace the footsteps of their forefathers from 2,000 years ago?
Jews left Palestine, dispersing in the “Diaspora”, two thousand years ago. Most settled comfortably around the world and it was not until the Zionist movement appeared at the end of the 19th century, that there was any claim for a restoration of the Jewish State. At first, any sufficiently large area was considered, including Argentina, Cyprus, East Africa and the Congo, but new leadership of the Zionist Organization demanded it should be Palestine.
In 1917, it was Palestinian or Arab people, whether Christian or Muslim, who comprised over 90% of the population of Palestine, and who owned about 97% of its land. But the goal of Zionism, with clear approval of the British administration responsible for the area after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, was to establish a Jewish State in Palestine, and the rights of the people of Palestine themselves received no attention in these plans. A disaster waiting to happen.
What the political concept of a Jewish State in Palestine needed to give it reality was to transfer people to Palestine. And this is exactly what happened. In the 1920s, between 2,000 and 34,000 Jews emigrated to Palestine per year, peaking in 1925, and thus doubling the Jewish population – rising from below 10% to over 17%. A strict policy of what in today’s terms would be described as racial discrimination was maintained by the Zionist Organization in this rapid advance towards the “national home”. Only Jewish labour could service Jewish farms and settlements. And a number of Jewish organizations were actively engaged in acquisition of land both for individual immigrant families as well as for the Jewish settlements.
Jewish settlement in Palestine increased radically during the rise of the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s, increasing to 630,000 in 1947, sharing the country with 1.3 million Arabs.
Over the years there were countless clashes between the two groups until the British washed their hands of the whole affair and handed over responsibility for the country to the UN. General UN indecisiveness and inability to enforce resolutions resulted in today’s situation: a strong Israel with Palestinian Arabs literally locked away in two areas of the country: Gaza and the West Bank.
And if you do not believe me when I maintain that today Israel is practising genocide against the remaining Palestinian Arabs in Gaza and the West Bank, while at the same time stirring up a suicidal war with Lebanon and Iran, then perhaps you can believe the vastly better educated Prof. Mearsheimer in his recent video broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4opzJiXAz0.
“Is Farage already sick of being an MP?”
Please correct me if I’m mistaken, but I read that MPs from the smallest parties are routinely ignored by the Speaker if they attempt to ask questions or speak in Parliament. If so, it seems logical that Nigel wouldn’t waste his time in futile attempts to speak there, but instead try to reach the public in other ways, as he is doing.
“All of us should join the Free Speech Union” Hats off to David Starkey!
“Scrapping of universities cancel culture law faces legal challenge”
And hats off to Toby Young!
I bet even Hux will begrudgingly agree with this post?
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Thanks Dinger 👍
I found it illuminating to look at all the things Davey has said in the new parliament. He has spoken a few times and none of them had any substance, but that is the LDs in a nutshell.