The full half hour of the Conservative leadership candidate’s detailed interview with the veteran broadcaster.
She shares with him the ability to throw opponents off balance – and a commitment to levelling up.
With Neil gone and other veteran journalists reportedly unhappy, ‘Britain’s news channel’ looks less and less like a news channel.
Plus: my interview with Richard Tice. Can he keep the Conservative Party honest?
The latest entrant in the British media landscape has got off to a very rocky start. Can the UK’s news-light news channel find its feet?
A brief apology doesn’t justify him remaining in post. It’s now up to him to do so live. This is one for Andrew Neil, assuming he’s available.
The problem is that spiralling spending demands quickly use up the options which voters don’t notice. Eventually you need other big sources of revenue,
The channel has done well to recruit voices from the podcast market and other unorthodox media channels.
The new channel’s critics don’t understand the difference between impartiality, which is required, and bias, which is not.
Plus: Piers Morgan wasn’t ‘cancelled’. And: We need a conversation on women’s safety.
Dacre has said that he “would die in a ditch defending it as a great civilising force”, and Moore grasps the Corporation’s original Reithian mission.
The Corporation has lost its grip on its Reithian inheritance – which, for all his criticism of the BBC, the former Telegraph editor understands.
Plus: Why the BBC must keep Neil. Why I’m leaving Lloyds. And: three hours with the LibDem leadership candidates.
Its decentralised hierarchy means there’s no obvious leader to engage with politicians and TV producers.
I was very much the junior partner in the team that launched 18 Doughty Street in 2006. Here’s what we tried to do, and this new enterprise should do.