earlier, i spoke to alastair campbell _ speculating.ell about this, l speculating. earlier, i spoke to i alastair campbell about this, and his opinion was that the media lost perspective on this. but obviously, there's a difference between what's in the public interest and what interests the public. how do you feel that tension has been managed so far when it comes to this story? it's very difficult, isn't it, because if there was a suggestion of a real culprit behind bbc, at the proper thing that should be investigated. but i don't think there ever was, to be honest. i think i've been highly critical of the bbc. it was clear from the beginning this was not the case here. it was clear the only thing the bbc was guilty of if anything was a relatively slow response to the initial complaint. mind you, we had 250 other complaints going on at the same time. but i think there was a concerted attack by people who hate the bbc to inflate the story. i think what social media takes over and once the bandwagon takes over, it runs off the rails. bb

earlier, i spoke to alastair campbell- doing is speculating. to alastair campbell about this, and his opinion was that the media lost perspective on this. but there's a difference between what's in the public interest and what interest the public. how do you feel that tension has been managed so far when it comes to this story? i5 that tension has been managed so far when it comes to this story?— when it comes to this story? is very difficult because _ when it comes to this story? is very difficult because if _ when it comes to this story? is very difficult because if there _ when it comes to this story? is very difficult because if there was - when it comes to this story? is very difficult because if there was a - difficult because if there was a suggestion of a real culprit by the bbc, it's a proper thing to be investigated. but i don't think there ever was, to be honest. i think i've been crystal when i said it's put the individual after the institution. it was clear that the only thing the bbc was guilty of if anything was a relatively slow

and look and once again, i - think we have lost alastair campbell but thanked him forjoining us for thisoblems with this connection. but helene, were talking about with alastair was quite a serious point in this discussion which is what hugh edwards at seven in the past about his own depression and with his wife has said about his condition. he and with his wife has said about his condition. ., , and with his wife has said about his condition. . , , ,., ~ and with his wife has said about his conrve . and with his wife has said about his com very epen _ and with his wife has said about his conr very open and _ and with his wife has said about his con very open and as ken and with his wife has said about his con very open and as alastair this very open and as alastair campbell was saying in 2022 last year, she spoke to men's health uk describing about his mental health describing how during his worst bout of about his mental health describing how during he norst bout of about his mental health describing how during he wast bout of about his mental health describing how during he was unable

you think the liberal elite, do you think alastair campbell ? jon you think alastair campbell?and saying, no, no, no , no, let's not jump to no, no, no, let's not jump to any conclusions . jones let's any conclusions. jones let's give him the benefit of the doubt. know it's extraordinary. i mean they'd be, they'd be calling for his head, they'd be shouting the rooftops. but shouting from the rooftops. but because it's of their own, because it's one of their own, it's a completely different story. >> you think the @ you think the a >> do you think the sun have a case to answer at all in terms of the reporting, whether it's the tone the content? the tone or the content? >> well, the sun were reporting what was to them by by the what was told to them by by the family of the young man at the centre of this story . centre of this story. >> no money for that story. >> no money for that story. >> they took no for that >> they took no money for that story. and the reason the sun broke the story in part i mean, the reason the family contacted the reason the family contacted the sun is b

and then the alastair campbell's, john simpson's and the rest weighed in to inform us that the activities own, one of the in—crowd, were none of our concern. and what's worth noticing more than anything else is how quickly and overwhelmingly we've been encouraged to disregard as utterly irrelevant the revelations themselves and to condemn instead those who've asked questions about what exactly was going on when it came to someone who nightly trots out the state of the nafion trots out the state of the nation as the establishment wants us to see it. what authority figure after another has come forward in recent days with words to the effect that if there's a problem, then it rests not with in the in—crowd, not with them in the in—crowd, but with here in the but with us out here in the general population. it comes from the same in—crowd that says when we do it, whatever we do , when we do it, whatever we do, it's because we're superior and sophisticate . and in ways you sophisticate. and in ways you regular tax paying, law abiding types begin to appreciate types cannot begin to appreciate th

and then the alastair campbell's, john simpson's and the rest weighed in to inform us that the activities own, one of the in—crowd, were none of our concern. and what's worth noticing more than anything else is how quickly and overwhelmingly we've been encouraged to disregard as utterly irrelevant the revelations themselves and to condemn instead those who've asked questions about what exactly was going on when it came to someone who nightly trots out the state of the nafion trots out the state of the nation as the establishment wants us to see it. what authority figure after another has come forward in recent days with words to the effect that if there's a problem, then it rests not with in the in—crowd, not with them in the in—crowd, but with here in the but with us out here in the general population. it comes from the same in—crowd that says when we do it, whatever we do , when we do it, whatever we do, it's because we're superior and sophisticate . and in ways you sophisticate. and in ways you regular tax paying, law abiding types begin to appreciate types cannot begin to appreciate th

keir starmer beats boris hollow , as did beats boris hollow, as did alastair campbell.ofession. the public have been brainwashed into calling boris a liar by the romanian campaign against him on the strike force. bridget says hi mark. the union leaders shouldn't get paid whilst their workers are on strike. it would encourage them to get round the table and reach a solution . john says to get round the table and reach a solution .john says hi mark of a solution. john says hi mark of course rishi sunak is a weak liberal. he should have faced down pressure to increase benefits by 10% and allowed those on universal credit to work another two hours a week without benefits to get the bone idol back to work. mark gb news .com. i'll get to more of your emails. i've got to say a massive reaction to my take at ten. the dark forces that like to close down gb news that would like to close down gb news let me tell you, the only place we're going is to the top. this from gary. hi, mark. i watch nothing else but gb news. my son is a university academic. he used to laugh at me for doin

what about war loving podcaster alastair campbell ? imagine the uproar. campbell?gine the uproar. all the world's grumpiest teenager, greta thunberg . what teenager, greta thunberg. what if she was affected? should any of their accounts have been cancelled ? there would have been cancelled? there would have been uproar. you would have been able to screams through the to hear the screams through the thick papered walls of thick velvet papered walls of the groucho club in soho . first the groucho club in soho. first up, bbc's former ruler in up, the bbc's former ruler in chief, the queen of bad takes, emily maitlis weighs in with her view on the farage de—banking scandal . scandal. >> the power of the populist somehow is to turn utter entitlement into victimhood . entitlement into victimhood. >> wow. nice bit of victim blaming there. getting debunked was all a clever ruse by nigel farage, it would seem. how can you be so bitter and twisted and not see how chilling it is to lose your bank account for wrong? think you would have thought these broadcasters would love th

what about war loving podcaster alastair campbell ? imagine the uproar. campbell?gine the uproar. all the world's grumpiest teenager, greta thunberg . what teenager, greta thunberg. what if she was affected? should any of their accounts have been cancelled ? there would have been cancelled? there would have been uproar. you would have been able to screams through the to hear the screams through the thick papered walls of thick velvet papered walls of the groucho club in soho . first the groucho club in soho. first up, bbc's former ruler in up, the bbc's former ruler in chief, the queen of bad takes, emily maitlis weighs in with her view on the farage de—banking scandal . scandal. >> the power of the populist somehow is to turn utter entitlement into victimhood . entitlement into victimhood. >> wow. nice bit of victim blaming there. getting debunked was all a clever ruse by nigel farage, it would seem. how can you be so bitter and twisted and not see how chilling it is to lose your bank account for wrong? think you would have thought these broadcasters would love th

and i remember the night of that exit poll and we had, i think, both alastair campbell and one of thee some forecasts ahead of this? these byelection days? were you surprised in any way by the outcomes . outcomes. >> oh, enormously . i outcomes. >> oh, enormously. i think i think the one thing that you can praise hq for in this election is that their expectation management game was a heck of a lot better than it was at those local elections where, of course, they were saying, will, we'll lose a thousand seats. everyone heard , you know, we'll everyone heard, you know, we'll lose substantially fewer than that. they lose a thousand seats. they're left looking slightly ridiculous . but no one slightly ridiculous. but no one i don't think i certainly didn't expect them to win in london. and i'm starting to wonder whether the ulez issue for the conservatives is a bit like inheritance tax. it's one of those issues that is incredibly divisive and it's a very unpopular policy despite . right. unpopular policy despite. right. not actually affecting a great deal of people . well, so i think dea

i mean, look at the type of things alastair campbell got away with for years as tony blair's kind ofdon brown being able to phones being able to throw phones across the office. these things don't really, because don't stick really, because they're beyond what the day to day of politics, the people actually care about. and when the issues that are facing the country so big, right. the country are so big, right. the economy, health service, economy, the health service, immigration, this is just this is non—story that, you know, is a non—story that, you know, political geeks like us like to talk but it won't move talk about, but it won't move like i feel a like that because i feel a slight, slight burning sense of injustice that there's not because you could you could make loads of this. >> you could i mean, obviously, we're talking about it now and all but the meat you all of that. but if the meat you really wanted to, could go really wanted to, they could go absolutely on this absolutely massive on this and make life very make keir starmer's life very very but of very uncomfortable. b

. >> he gave a brilliant interview to alastair campbell in men's health magazine in back in 2019. >>aying the mental health card now, i think is rather tasteless and inappropriate , but tasteless and inappropriate, but not least because , as we are not least because, as we are talking about a human being here, we're not talking about actually forgetting some of the allegations that have been made i >> -- >> but what we are talking about right now is someone who is receiving inpatient care for and who needs to be given the time. him and his family also need to be given the time to process that and to heal from that. and then at another stage, there might be an opportunity to address some of the allegations that julie is quite rightly saying are potentially very important, very significant and mustn't be forgotten. but right now , now the priority has got to now, now the priority has got to be the wellbeing of all the people involved in this story. >> and let's not forget, there have been other people pulled into the vortex of it. >> but at the moment we know that one person in particu

much it was or how much it wasn't, but people like wasn't, but also people like alastair out as alastair campbellt was bofis well and saying when it was boris johnson, let's cast boris johnson, right. let's cast our partygate part our minds back to partygate part partygate they partygate partygate part. they did anybody would be did not stop anybody would be affected by that. boris affected badly by that. boris johnson kept going. i mean, you saw what happened to liz truss. she a fraction of what boris she got a fraction of what boris got. nobody care about got. why does nobody care about that? don't understand the that? i don't understand the differencesthe difference? it's >> what's the difference? it's the because the difference because there's a difference between the keywords with story and the phillip schofield . people out schofield story. people were out to phil already. his his, to get phil already. his his, you know , his there's loads of you know, his there's loads of people out to get boris. but what i'm saying. and what i'm saying. yeah. and that's mean. so there was that's what i mea