[Stockland Hillman]

Did I say banned? No I didn't. Please stop putting words into people's comments which aren't there - We need proper regulation of ALL news/opinion channels on British television, left, right and centre, ALL - it is just GB News and Talk TV seem to stick out like a sore thumb these days.

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I am for a tighter regulator for ALL sides - left, right and centre - instead of the lighter touch regulation we seem to have with OFCOM these days - my opinion, you may disagree, that's your right, I have mine too.

The regulation is the same, more or less for the whole of Ofcoms life. That's nearly 20 YEARS. What exactly is "these days" other than a fiction of your imagination?

Newer newstalk/news/opinion channels are more a result of lower cost of production and market access than regulatory relaxation.

UK is unusual in the fact the BBC as public broadcaster dominates broadcast and online news, and the biggest commercial broadcast news outlets are also public service licenced. So it's not had a market led news heritage: where channels target an audience with a reflective voice for their interests and agenda. Talk TVs problem is its blend of of opinion hosted by old media names  isn't resonating.

A country where a narrow agenda of discussion and opinions is allowed isn't a democracy. Plurality is a good thing even with opinions you may disagree with, and activist extremists trying to limit this are a danger to an open society.