The BBC has confirmed that its pundits are free to undertake other media work during this summer’s World Cup but will not subsidise the costs involved. Licence fee payers’ money will not be used to fund travel and expenses for pundits Alan Shearer and Micah Richards to appear on Gary Lineker’s The Rest Is Football […]

What can be said about Minnesota Governor Tim Walz that hasn’t already been said? I mean, the guy was a walking and talking buffoon throughout his miserable 2024 vice-presidential campaign, as the sidekick of the equally-miserable Democrat presidential nominee, former Vice President Kamala Harris.  Now he says he wouldn’t […]

A very interesting post on his Free Systems substack; I’m not sure what to think of the subject, but it struck me as much worth passing along. An excerpt: I’m a political economy professor who studies constitutional design: how societies create structures that constrain their most powerful actors, and what happens when those structures fail. I’ve […]

Fox News Channel continued its unprecedented dominance of cable news in January, marking 24 consecutive years as the top-rated network.  The cable channel’s ratings rivaled those of broadcast TV networks and beat CBS, even though those channels are more widely available to a bigger audience. CBS suffered its worst ratings this century across multiple programs, according to Nielsen data […]

Mark White has blasted the UK–China deal aimed at disrupting people smuggling networks, branding it a “fantasy” and as evidence suggests smugglers are already ditching Chinese-made engines. The GB News Home and Security Editor said people smugglers have been moving away from cheap Chinese-manufactured engines because of repeated reliability failures long before the Government’s latest […]