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Russell Brand: Reaching the Parts MSM Can’t Reach?

BY M.L.R. SMITH & NIALL McCRAE From ‘leftwing firebrand to right-wing conspiracy theorist’. That, according to the Spectator, is the trajectory of the celebrity figure of Russell Brand. In March 2023, having completed a tour of the United States, Brand appeared on talk shows such as The Joe Rogan Experience, The Rubin Report, Tucker Carlson Today and Bill Maher’s Real Time and Club Random. Famed … Continue reading Russell Brand: Reaching the Parts MSM Can’t Reach?

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Just Imagine

BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Just imagine if We Brits had a broadcaster across TV, the Web and Radio that was free to access, funded by adverts, therefore reflecting the market, Our Nation. One that backed everything British rather than cocking a snook at it. A service that delivered factual news and illuminating documentaries that boosted British Democracy and, by shining an investigative light, held those in … Continue reading Just Imagine

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The Narcissistic Broadcasting Company

BY STEWART SLATER What was the most important thing for you to know early on Saturday evening? What was the key thing which had happened in the world? America’s failure, once more, to launch its new rocket perhaps? The ongoing humanitarian catastrophe caused by the floods in Pakistan maybe? The fact that we were inching ever closer to Larry the Cat finally getting a new … Continue reading The Narcissistic Broadcasting Company

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Polemily

BY QUENTIN PIGG How often do we see those overworked words ‘brilliant’ and ‘brave’ used to describe speeches that are neither of the two? Social media – where one is encouraged to make the searingly banal sound sensational – has degraded these sacred epithets into cheap expressions of partisan approval. So, it was with some suspicion that I saw them attached to Emily Maitlis’ James … Continue reading Polemily

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Solution to a Problem that Didn’t Exist

BY ROGER WATSON To the delight of Guardianistas, the viewing figures for Talk TV have plummeted and they seem to have done so by an order of magnitude from around 400,000 — when it was known as talkRADIO — to around 40,000. While I can confirm the figures for talkRADIO, I have not yet found similarly verified figures for Talk TV. However, regardless of the … Continue reading Solution to a Problem that Didn’t Exist

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The New Conservative

Dear Readers, We thought you should be the first to hear about the launch of a new online magazine: The New Conservative, which breathes its first virtual oxygen today. In the spirit of conservatism, whereby conservatives put self-interest second and encourage their kin first, this magazine is well worth a ganders. The new magazine promises to be ‘a forum for conservatives in heart, not name … Continue reading The New Conservative

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Cleaning the Augean Stable

CSM EDITORIAL BBC Director General Tim Davie’s squirming in front of a committee of MPs a couple of days ago was embarrassing to watch. Reminiscent of a schoolboy making up ridiculous excuses for not doing his prep rather than just admitting to the truth and acting contritely. Davie’s excuse for the organisation’s fading impartiality was flimsy to say the least:   “I think the culture … Continue reading Cleaning the Augean Stable

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GB News

BY JON ALEXANDER And there we have it, arriving with all the grace and charm of Katie Hopkins gate-crashing a Weightwatchers meeting 4 months ago, GB News loses its Chairman and Lead Presenter Andrew Neil. Of course, this was preceded by rumours of a rift with senior management, senior management departing, a leave of absence for Neil within weeks of the channel launching and the … Continue reading GB News

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Yorkshire Post Owe Apology

BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Animal rights activists are fully on board the train of Cancel Culture. They have taken each and every opportunity via social media to hunt down in packs companies that are associated with hunting, using fabricated film where impetus was lacking. With the Glorious Twelfth upon us, animal rights activists have been busy breathing down the necks of companies with grouse moor interests … Continue reading Yorkshire Post Owe Apology

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GB News

BY JON ALEXANDER It finally happened, after months of anticipation, GB News finally arrived to take on the media heavyweights like the BBC and Sky News. Launching with a welcome message from its chairman, Andrew Neil, promising to protect free speech and challenge the conventional Westminster mindset with the tag line “if it matters to you, it matters to us” but niftily followed further on … Continue reading GB News

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Days of Illusion

BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Two millennia ago, during a civil war in the Roman Republic, Octavian fought a disinformation war against Mark Anthony. Using verse and catchy slogans printed on to coins, Octavian swayed the Roman people with fake news – claiming that Cleopatra’s lover was a drunkard who disrespected Roman values. He eventually won the war. He became the first Emperor of Rome, ruling for … Continue reading Days of Illusion

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Red Sky

BY QUENTIN PIGG If the BBC is the mouthpiece of the Guardian, then Sky News is its ringpiece – at least that’s the organ their appraisal of 2020 conjures up. Though it’s presented to us in a form as benign as any fatuous female supplement column, the subjects are more insidious than that of gluten intolerance. Make no mistake, this is a study in unrelenting … Continue reading Red Sky

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TAC

BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Thanks to modern technology even those of us who rise at five o’clock in the morning can have our social circles operating in the background at that time, while we set about our day’s work, thanks to services like Telegram and Signal. There’s one group I am a member of which has developed an entertaining Statler and Waldorf approach to the day’s … Continue reading TAC

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What’s the Point of S4C?

BY MARCUS STEAD You’re probably familiar with this exchange from Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde: CECIL GRAHAM: What is a cynic?LORD DARLINGTON: A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.CECIL GRAHAM: And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn’t know the market price of any single thing. Public subsidies are always a … Continue reading What’s the Point of S4C?

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Biased BBC Dissembling (Again)

BY ALEXIA JAMES Let’s be frank. The BBC does not have a good reputation for being fair and balanced over Brexit. Some argue that their Remain bias over recent years has done irreparable damage to public trust in the BBC, its ability to deliver news impartially, and will result in the end of the licence fee in coming years. Already there is desperate talk of … Continue reading Biased BBC Dissembling (Again)

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Comedy, Media

Germans Are Not Funny

BY ALEXIA JAMES No, Brit Girl, the Germans do not now have a better sense of humour than the British. 30,000 people across 15 countries were asked to name both the “funniest” (“best at making people laugh”) and “least funny” nationality in a poll conducted by Badoo.com. The Germans came out last. They were even below the Belgians. Germans are as funny as Nish Kumar, … Continue reading Germans Are Not Funny

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Ware’s Almost Perfect Wisdom

BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN While the highly respected journalist John Ware’s attack in the Jewish Chronicle on “deceitful propaganda” was a wholly merited blast at anti-Semitic Corbynite ideologues – the Lansmans, Mendozas and Rachels from Swindon of this world – John came up with some useful paragraphs for those running blogs and websites which by choice or nature are outwith the mainstream media and regulatory control: … Continue reading Ware’s Almost Perfect Wisdom

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