I love GB News

I watched it in bed this morning and there was a criminal psychologist and a retired senior Police inspector discussing Lucy Letby and it was very interesting. The Police guy said there was a massive enquiry after the nurse Beverley Allitt murders which said that this must never happen again and in 2015 they encouraged hospital staff to whistleblow anything suspicious. This time they did and ended up having to write letters of apology to Letby!

Indeed Primrose.

Primrose53

I watched it in bed this morning and there was a criminal psychologist and a retired senior Police inspector discussing Lucy Letby and it was very interesting. The Police guy said there was a massive enquiry after the nurse Beverley Allitt murders which said that this must never happen again and in 2015 they encouraged hospital staff to whistleblow anything suspicious. This time they did and ended up having to write letters of apology to Letby!

That really is quite astonishing 🤦‍♀️

I believe GB News have started a petition to ask for a Judge-led inquiry into the actions of the Management Team.

It seems certain that anything less will result in a swift whitewash, with the Managers expressing compassion for the sorrow the parents are experiencing, but never their own incompetence, stating that lessons will be learnt while knowing they won't and returning to enjoy their fat pensions.

The judge led inquiry is required so that all witnesses can be compelled to turn up and not because any other kind of inquiry would be a whitewash.

The govt indicated yesterday that the inquiry is likely to statutory.

But without all witnesses, and people being forced to answer uncomfortable questions, such as why the managers did not act on the consultant's concerns rather than threatening them with referral to the GMC, it will be a whitewash.

Good discussion on at the moment about migrants may be being fitted with electronic tags
For people arriving illegally..

I don’t think the Home Secretary realises how relatively easy it is to remove a tag.
Needless to say they would only do this if they wanted to disappear.

www.youtube.com/shorts/XvC4xbpzH0I

MerylStreep

I don’t think the Home Secretary realises how relatively easy it is to remove a tag.
Needless to say they would only do this if they wanted to disappear.

www.youtube.com/shorts/XvC4xbpzH0I

I don’t think the Home Secretary realise’s a lot of things to be fair 🤷‍♀️

Very sorry to read that GN Newsreader Alastair Stewart (71) has announced he has dementia.

He stepped down from GB news recently as his symptoms became worrying.

He has been a great presenter on ITV for years and his voice is crisp and clear. I think it said he is the longest serving newsreader. Great shame.

*Re. Alastair Stewart

Alastair Stewart, 71, reveals he has early onset dementia: Britain's longest-serving newsreader who stepped down from GB News in March, says he is suffering with vascular dementia and has had a series of minor strokes

The minor strokes were detected by a brain scan and he was unaware they had occurred..

Very sad to read about Alistair…

During Tuesday night’s show, Laurence Fox, launched several attacks against journalist Ava Evans.

Every day, GB News proves itself to be a poison in our political life. And every day, respectable politicians get up, put on a suit, and appear on it, as if it were just like any other outlet. They are willing accomplices to the radicalisation of our discourse.

Last night provided an example of the kind of coverage the channel offers and the type of culture it has fostered. Host Dan Wootton was interviewing another host, Laurence Fox, when the subject of political correspondent Ava Evans came up. Fox started churning out the kind of deranged woman-hating bile that you would find in the muckiest corners of the internet.

“Show me a single self-respecting man who would like to climb into bed with that woman, who wasn’t a cucked little incel,” he said. Cucks are men who watch their wives have sex with other men in online pornography. Incel is short for “involuntary celibates” – typically young alienated men burning with rage at their perceived lack of sexual success. These are the kinds of terms which are commonly used in misogynist online circles. It’s the languages of places like 4Chan, inserted into the mainstream.

“Who’d want to shag that?” Fox continued. Wootton chuckled away.

For once, the channel seems to have realised the trouble it was getting into. This morning it suspended Fox, launched an investigation and said it would apologise to Evans. “What he said does not reflect our values and we apologise unreservedly for the comments and the offence they have caused,” it said in a statement. Wooton took to X (formerly Twitter) to insist that “I was in no way amused by the comments”.

This appears a desperate last-minute scramble to escape censure and attention. Many would argue Fox’s comments were entirely in line with the channel’s values. They knew who he was and they knew what he stood for. Here is a man who spreads the conspiracy theory that immigration is an attempt to replace Western culture and demands people break lockdown rules during Covid. What did they do with him? They gave him his own show where he “tackles the issues of the day with his unique and outgoing style”.

Wootton himself is currently suspended from his freelance column for MailOnline while he is investigated for allegations about inappropriate behaviour, which he denies. But he was not suspended from presenting on GB News.

It’s not just the hosts. It’s the format and the subject matter. The entire segment was dedicated to an offhand comment Evans had made about men on a different TV channel. It’s not the kind of thing which is worthy of comment, let alone an entire segment, but it’s good culture war fodder, so they made a big deal out of it.

It was presented with the banner “SMIRKING FACE OF DISDAIN” and described her erroneously as a “hard left commentator”, which she is not. Was the framing designed to produce a respectful discussion of meaningful political debate? Obviously not. It was intended to stoke division and encourage hatred, which is precisely what it did. The channel incentivises this behaviour and then holds up its hands in mock innocence when it leads to its logical conclusion.
You can see the same thing happening across its output. GB News host Bev Turner recently responded to rape allegations against Russell Brand by tweeting that he was a “hero” and was “welcome on my GB News show anytime”. In a since-deleted tweet she has described Covid as a “bioweapon to destroy the West”, while insisting that Jews and east Asians are less affected – a deranged antisemitic conspiracy theory.

Host Neil Oliver talks regularly of “a global elite controlling world politics” – another conspiracy theory with strong antisemitic overtones. This is the standard narrative frame, from talk of a globalist elite to the “replacement” of British culture through migration. Hatred, division and conspiracy theory all the way down.

Once upon a time, these views were restricted to the most extreme parts of the internet. But GB News functions as a mechanism for mainstreaming them.

Among its hosts are former leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg, current Conservative Party vice-chairman Lee Anderson, and husband and wife Tory MP team Esther McVey and Philip Davies.

inews.co.uk/opinion/laurence-fox-women-hating-bile-gb-news-final-straw-channel-2645731

No doubt there are still GNers who still like GBNews despite the number of complaints about it.

Surely not Dinahmo?

I have never watched this channel, never would.
Those who do watch facilitate the likes of Fox and Wootton.
Switch off for heavens sake.

Lawrence fox is a misogynist and the allegations against wooton are very serious. Nonetheless I am afraid I thought the BBC segment on Male suicide was appalling and throwing the word culture war around will not stop people discussing it.

Nonsense.
Fox was rightly suspended, he’s an attention seeker who goes way too far, but that doesn’t mean that GB News should be suspended.
People who say they’ve never watched the channel can’t judge all the content on either Fox or Wooton.
It’s the only news and views outlet where people say what they think, sure they can say things that offend others, a rare thing today and some people will throw up their hands in horror, but yes you can switch off or change channels in that case.
There’s a lot of interesting content and debate on GB that’s lacking elsewhere.

My comment was directed to LauraNorderr not Galaxy

Oreo

Nonsense.
Fox was rightly suspended, he’s an attention seeker who goes way too far, but that doesn’t mean that GB News should be suspended.
People who say they’ve never watched the channel can’t judge all the content on either Fox or Wooton.
It’s the only news and views outlet where people say what they think, sure they can say things that offend others, a rare thing today and some people will throw up their hands in horror, but yes you can switch off or change channels in that case.
There’s a lot of interesting content and debate on GB that’s lacking elsewhere.

I agree Oreo. It’s a good channel most of the time with lots of interesting discussions.

Oreo

Nonsense.
Fox was rightly suspended, he’s an attention seeker who goes way too far, but that doesn’t mean that GB News should be suspended.
People who say they’ve never watched the channel can’t judge all the content on either Fox or Wooton.
It’s the only news and views outlet where people say what they think, sure they can say things that offend others, a rare thing today and some people will throw up their hands in horror, but yes you can switch off or change channels in that case.
There’s a lot of interesting content and debate on GB that’s lacking elsewhere.

We’ll said Oreo 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Oreo

Nonsense.
Fox was rightly suspended, he’s an attention seeker who goes way too far, but that doesn’t mean that GB News should be suspended.
People who say they’ve never watched the channel can’t judge all the content on either Fox or Wooton.
It’s the only news and views outlet where people say what they think, sure they can say things that offend others, a rare thing today and some people will throw up their hands in horror, but yes you can switch off or change channels in that case.
There’s a lot of interesting content and debate on GB that’s lacking elsewhere.

Nonsense. There's a lot of debate on other channels they just don't debate throughout the day. The BBC News Channel, Sky News and Channel 4 at 7.00pm - 3 examples with proper journalists, not just talking heads.

varian

Surely not Dinahmo?

Sadly I was right!

Perhaps I should reserve judgement until I have watched a little. How about I tune in for a week Oreo and then come back with my comments.

Dinahmo

varian

Surely not Dinahmo?

Sadly I was right!

Yes,just pity us who LOVE GB news…😂😂😂😂