Sometimes, I think 'The Spectator' is calculated to embarrass me.

Andrew Neil

Categorized in : Me Think I Think Sometimes

Journalists always want publishers or editors to leave. They're creative troublemakers - that's why you hire them.

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I'm proud to have played a major part in destroying Fleet Street, a corrupt cartel of unions and proprietors that operated against the public interest.

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No, you see, unlike some interviewers, I love politics... overall I am not anti-politicians at all. I recognise they are more important than me.

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I am not an insider - definitely not... but I don't think you could call me an outsider.

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There's a substantial difference between dumping 100 copies of the 'Telegraph' at a Connex South Central station and giving away copies of the 'Business' with the 'Mail on Sunday.' 'This kind of circulation is valuable and enhances the brand. Leaving them anywhere willy-nilly devalues the brand.

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We are up and running as you can see. We get better every day, and there's clearly an appetite for what we're doing. In under two short weeks we've already built a loyal audience which has beaten all of our expectations, it's often bigger than other news channels and it's growing. That's the real story about GB news to date, and you won't often read that in the papers.

That is an easy, inaccurate shorthand for what we are trying to do.

Cancel culture is insidious, it stands against everything we have stood for since the Enlightenment onwards and that is why it is serious.

There's no requirement under due impartiality for a channel not to have a bias, all it requires is you reflect, to a pretty small degree, what the opposing viewpoint is.