Behind GB News

By: Solomon Hughes

Insurgent TV station GB News is just the latest way that wealthy right-wingers will look to shape Britain’s media environment in their interests.

Illustration by Benedikt Rugar.

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This year is set to see the launch of Andrew Neil’s GB News, a new television station promising to bolster the right wing of the culture war. Pushed heavily by BBC and Spectator veteran Andrew Neil, the channel logo might be red-white-and-blue, but its leading funders are hardly ‘patriotic’. They include a Dubai-based financier and […]

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This year is set to see the launch of Andrew Neil’s GB News, a new television station promising to bolster the right wing of the culture war. Pushed heavily by BBC and Spectator veteran Andrew Neil, the channel logo might be red-white-and-blue, but its leading funders are hardly ‘patriotic’. They include a Dubai-based financier and […]

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This year is set to see the launch of Andrew Neil’s GB News, a new television station promising to bolster the right wing of the culture war. Pushed heavily by BBC and Spectator veteran Andrew Neil, the channel logo might be red-white-and-blue, but its leading funders are hardly ‘patriotic’. They include a Dubai-based financier and […]

This year is set to see the launch of Andrew Neil’s GB News, a new television station promising to bolster the right wing of the culture war. Pushed heavily by BBC and Spectator veteran Andrew Neil, the channel logo might be red-white-and-blue, but its leading funders are hardly ‘patriotic’. They include a Dubai-based financier and […]

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