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A conservative broadcaster in the United Kingdom received an official government warning for not being impartial and having politicians appear on the network without on-screen opposition. GB News was warned by the Office of Communications that some of their news shows were not unbiased enough. After an investigation that began in the summer of 2023, GB News was found to have violated Ofcom's regulatory guidelines surrounding impartiality in a total of five broadcasts. Two episodes of "Jacob Rees-Mogg’s State of the Nation," two episodes of "Friday Morning with Esther and Phil," and one episode of "Saturday Morning with Esther and...

Greetings from The Mark Steyn Caribbean Cruise, where we are sailing from the Bahamas to Jamaica. That's Leilani Dowding, Tal Bachman and Samantha Smith on stage with me for The Mark Steyn Show. ~I mentioned on Friday that, as part of their increasing dissatisfaction with the lousy Tories'n'trivia drivel of the current GB News output, Tweeters keep dusting off old clips of the way it used to be. I'd forgotten this bit, but it's not bad: 'Something is rotten in Oldham, Telford, Rotherham, Rochdale... on and on' Mark Steyn condemns the police forces that have issued ASBOs to individuals, after...

This sounded so exciting I thought I must try to book tickets. And then I remembered I've been stuck doing the out-of-town tryout for twelve years: NEW: Climate Change Is ON TRIAL ⚡️ Michael Mann & Mark Steyn will battle in court. The case will explore the hockey stick climate graph that rattled the world. Mark Steyn claims it's a fraud. Michael Mann believes it is our future. Find out: https://t.co/I7D8bzGPts pic.twitter.com/GuMKIRLXdT — Ann McElhinney (@annmcelhinney) January 11, 2024 More from Ann and Phelim here. Aside from their daily podcast, my former publicist Amy K Mitchell (whom some of you...

Fears antisemitic tropes are being spread after host Neil Oliver discusses plan to impose ‘one-world government’The UK’s leading Jewish organisation and a group of MPs have called on GB News and the media regulator Ofcom to tackle the broadcaster’s indulgence of conspiracy theories, warning that some recent segments and guests risked spreading ideas linked to antisemitism. The criticism comes as the channel faces increasing scrutiny over its mix of serious news with programmes that delve heavily into conspiracies about areas including Covid vaccines and a plot to create a world government. The decision by the Board of Deputies of British...

ITV has been ordered to treat UKIP as a “major party” in the run-up to the European Parliament elections in May. In a landmark ruling, broadcasting regulator Ofcom last night said the anti-EU party’s success in previous Euro elections meant it should be put on a par with the other main parties. ITV and Channel 5, which are regulated by Ofcom, were ordered to grant UKIP “major party status” in the run-up to May’s elections, guaranteeing it increased coverage. …

WHEN it comes to global warming, extreme scare stories abound. Al Gore, for example, famously claimed that a whopping six metres (20 feet) of sea-level rise would flood major cities around the world. Gore’s scientific advisor, Jim Hansen from NASA, has even topped his protégé. Hansen suggests that there will eventually be sea-level rises of 24 metres (80 feet), with a six-metre rise happening just this century. Little wonder that fellow environmentalist Bill McKibben states that “we are engaging in a reckless drive — by drowning of much of the rest of the planet and much of the rest of...