New Alternative News Channel "GB News" chaired by Andrew Neil launching - read OP before posting

I wouldn't have said people here were a "baying mob". Too much mockery and laughter for it to have ever been hostile. Hard to take people seriously when they're so openly sycophantic towards someone like Nigel Farage. And it was sycophancy, plain to see.

To the follow-on point, Roy Chubby Brown? Jesus Christ, chalk that up as yet another irrelevant dinosaur I presumed was long dead. No great loss there; any comedian who "punches down" doesn't get to cry foul when the world tells him to fúck off. Easy to mock blacks or gay people when they had to keep their heads down, their existence legislated against and weren't part of society.

It's probably just another, more outsized variant of that malaise and confusion wrought by simply growing old. Perhaps made worse by the fact some icons from one's past have become more than just irrelevant - but toxic as well. And so rather than consider that maybe, just maybe, those old jokes punching down at gays and black people belong in the past; but instead resist the tide, and presume the youth are too sensitive, that it's "cancel culture" at fault. One's own youth & nostalgia under attack, and by extension - the self.

The irony is, given how his speech started off trumpeting the importance of America as beacon of freedom (mythical it may be), Oliver completely skirted past the various actual, legislative erosions to democratic freedoms 911 ushered in; the increased militarisation of civil services like the police; and so on. So much to dissect there alone ... But no. Pronouns are the real evils to freedom since the towers fell. If it wasn't gross it'd be funny.

Notwithstanding how "cultural power" is an empty phrase up there with "silent majority" ... it a concept entirely defined by both the people, and the artists within: art - by its very nature - leans progressive because it demands an interrogation towards the status-quo (hence why there are so few right-wing artists); while the people dictate the direction of social models - assuming that country's political institutions allow that voice to shout loudest.

As seen here; where, when the people were asked the simple questions, abortion and same-sex marriage were OK'ed with gusto. No great silent majority shot down either, despite a very vocal cadre of worriers and cultural gate-keepers insisting otherwise. Ergo, the cultural power is ours. IF anything, the people saw it as a bit of legislative housekeeping to keep up with attitudes 10/20 years ahead of the law.

GB News modelled itself off of outrage from a few key concepts, ideas that the channel utterly over-estimated the resistance over. Neil Oliver trying to link 9/11 to trans rights is shameless and craven; while overall, it has trumpeted itself as a great challenger to some sinister cultural conspiracy, without thinking that the population are completely happy with this "conspiracy" - because at worst has no effect on their lives; and at best, improves the lives of their family, friends and neighbours.

The great, current danger to society are not pronouns. It's the Gig Economy. Let's hear GB News attack that for a change. I'll wait.

Will be interesting to see where he ends up next; whether the stink of GB News' mania for cancel culture follows him, or if he manages to distance himself.