Andrew Neil’s vision of GB News was doomed to fail
The BBC and Sky News are hardly hotbeds of Marxism – so GB News could never be a truly “mainstream” channel.
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James Ball
James Ball is the global editor of The Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
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