Private Eye tells us that the strategists at BBC News are plotting the return of a UK tv news service on weekdays from the end of breakfast to the Six O'Clock News during the next General Election campaign. It's not clear whether they'll bother to 'win the weekends' in the UK with Saturday and Sunday coverage.
It's all too little, too late. Those interested in British politics have already given up on The World Today with Maryam Moshiri; The Context is for those with an interest in listening to US commentators and academics.
GB News is stepping up its presentation game; graphics and straps are much sharper. They spent money on the Rochdale by-election, both with boots on the ground, and paying guests like Rees-Mogg, Alison Pearson, Stephen Pound and more to stay up for the result. Michael Portillo was drafted in to co-host their breakfast show; political correspondent Christopher Hope was on air from 6am to midday. It's a mere simulacrum of a properly regulated news channel - but it's fooling more and more people.
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