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Media Watch: GB News' £100k fine and Isabel Oakeshott's 'disgraceful' rant

Good evening and welcome to this week's Media Watch where a months-long drama involving GB News has finally come to a conclusion ... for now anyway.

The National (Scotland)

Zoo That Quietly Unleashed Thousands of Horrifying 'Fist-Sized' Spiders on Unsuspecting Citizens Celebrates 'Best Year on Record' for Species

Ten years ago, a zoo released thousands of "fist-sized" black spiders across the UK to support aquatic ecosystems. Now, they're celebrating their success.

Latin Times

Revealed: English neo-Nazi who stabbed asylum seeker was serial stalker

Terrorist Callum Parslow was previously jailed for sending 10 women sexually explicit and misogynistic messages, and targeted a former GB News presenter

The Guardian - UK

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Kemi Badenoch is taking Starmer’s ‘say nothing’ approach – and it will come back to bite her if she wins

Sticking to broad platitudes and waiting for your opponent to fail is the wrong approach for a new-look Tory party, says ConservativeHome’s Henry Hill

The Guardian - UK

It’s Trump’s playbook in the UK. Jenrick mining the Southport atrocity for votes shows he has learned it well

The Tory candidate seems happy to stoke far-right conspiracies for cynical political gain, happy to follow a terrible example, says Joe Mulhall of Hope Not Hate

The Guardian - UK

GB News fined £100,000 by Ofcom for breaking impartiality rules over Rishi Sunak interview

Ofcom says broadcaster gave Rishi Sunak a ‘mostly uncontested platform’ in February interview

The Independent UK

GB News fined £100,000 by Ofcom after 'impartial' Rishi Sunak interview

The channel has previously challenged Ofcom’s finding in court

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GB News fined £100,000 by Ofcom after Rishi Sunak Q and A debate

The channel’s chief executive, Angelos Frangopoulos, said the ‘unnecessary, unfair and unlawful’ ruling is being challenged in the courts.

The Independent UK

GB News fined £100k for breaking impartiality rules in Rishi Sunak interview

OFCOM has imposed a £100,000 fine on GB News for “breaking due impartiality rules” following an interview with the former prime minister Rishi…

The National (Scotland)

The law of averages has let everyone down in Tory leadership race

Badenoch and Jenrick appeal to worst instincts of Tory members, though few seem to care about what is clearly a temporary appointment

The Guardian - UK

Former GB News presenter ordered to pay £50,000 in legal costs

Mark Steyn lost a high court battle against Ofcom who he claimed ‘killed’ his career with rulings about Covid comments

The Guardian - UK

Former GB News presenter to pay £50,000 in costs after losing Ofcom legal battle

Mark Steyn previously challenged decisions by Ofcom that two of his shows breached its rules.

The Independent UK

Former GB News presenter Mark Steyn to pay £50,000 in costs after losing Ofcom legal battle

Mark Steyn previously challenged decisions by Ofcom that two of his shows breached its rules

Evening Standard

Jenrick says Nato countries should raise defence spending to 3% of GDP

Robert Jenrick also said the West should reduce its dependency on China and prepare for China to invade Taiwan ‘within three years’.

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The Guardian - UK

Honest Bob Jenrick won’t sleep until everyone sees he’s the maddest person in the room

The Tory leadership hopeful believes that if he shouts the same things a bit louder, everyone will eventually come round to his way of thinking

Evening Standard

Eamonn Holmes looks smitten with new girlfriend Katie Alexander as they pose for photos at friend's wedding

The GB News presenter has been linked to the relationship counsellor since his split from wife of 14 years Ruth Langsford in May

The Independent UK

Ex-Tory chair who called party Islamophobic backs Badenoch and then changes her mind

Sayeeda Warsi recently resigned the Tory whip in parliament following a race hate row, but still gets a vote in leadership contest

The Guardian - UK

‘Abrasive’ Kemi Badenoch urged to play nice to secure Conservative leadership

Supporters offer advice to get the favourite over the line, gambling she can unite the party and restore Tory fortunes

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Everyone seems to hate Nottingham Building Society's new logo – even the city's official Robin Hood actor

They replaced the Prince of Thieves with a squiggle?

The Independent UK

No 10 slaps down Tory MP over claim Kemi Badenoch is ‘preoccupied’ by family

’His comments are never directed at men or fathers, bizarrely,’ the PM’s spokesperson said

The National (Scotland)

BBC Tory leadership debate cancelled as Kemi Badenoch refuses to take part

KEMI Badenoch has refused to take part in a BBC Question Time special framed as a debate on the Tory leadership contest ...

The Guardian - UK

It was Badenoch v Jenrick on GB News. And if that all sounds bad, watching it was worse

Each had an hour to show why they are the future – until the next Tory debacle means another contest. They barely managed that, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Independent UK

Kemi Badenoch says her first act as prime minister would be to restore tax breaks for private schools

Ms Badenoch told Tory members to ‘stop blaming Brexit for all our problems’ and added Reform leader Nigel Farage would not be welcome in the party

The Guardian - UK

KemiKaze and Honest Bob are let loose on GB News where they can’t do any harm

Badenoch fared slightly better in the TV special for the two Tory leadership candidates than Jenrick, who is the party’s very own hollow man

The Guardian - UK

Tory debate takeaways: a clash of styles, a tame format and a win for Badenoch

Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick took questions from Conservative party members on Thursday night

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