
Right-Wing Media Watch – GB News’ outrage over teaching union’s apparent comments about Reform
It doesn’t take much for Nigel Farage’s loyal employer GB News to jump to the defence of the Reform UK leader.

It doesn’t take much for Nigel Farage’s loyal employer GB News to jump to the defence of the Reform UK leader.

Fast forward 14 years since the Sun’s repugnant ‘Beat the Cheat’ campaign, and the same misguided and exaggerated vilification of disabled people has resurfaced, this time under a Labour government.

“Absolutely f****** insane.”

At its best, British journalism is very good indeed. But when bad, it can be truly awful. Our tabloid newspapers, in particular, have long been the architects of their own brand of media warfare.

If the right unites, especially if Dominic Cummings, the inveterate plotter and ‘strategic genius’ (Barnard Castle rather undermined the genius label) gets into bed with Farage, the left could be in trouble. How Labour responds will be crucial.

“The stupidity and ignorance on display currently is insane.”

His funding of a new crop of journalists raises fears that the political neutrality of journalism is under siege.

‘With liberal democracy under threat in the USA, we must now choose between the complicity of silence or engage in an open debate in support of our own values.’

It seems, woke-bashers can come in all political colours.

The right-wing press is once again indulging its favourite pastime – taking aim at Ed Miliband and Net Zero.