Andrew Neil needs to be more Vorderman, less Voldemort
Stewart Lee
Larger-than-life TV personalities should be using their fame to highlight the connections between thinktanks, media outlets and policymakers – not pretend they don’t exist
July 2023
Andrew Neil show is latest victim of Channel 4 cuts
Sunday night political programme will not return this year and plans for 2024 still uncertain
May 2023
Today in Focus
Conspiracy theories and chaos: a week watching GB News
Heather Stewart spends a week watching the ‘anti-woke’ channel two years after its launch
August 2022
Politicians view face-to-face interviews as ‘all risk’, says Nick Robinson
BBC journalist says ‘broadcast interviews matter for the health of our democracy’ after Liz Truss cancels one-on-one encounter
July 2022
Brief letters
Great expectations of a Wagatha sequel
Brief letters: Vardy v Rooney | Grammar schools | Backing the birch | Truss v Neil | More flushing advice
Rishi Sunak says he was 'silly' to say he had no working-class friends – video
Sunak was asked if it was’ unsavoury’ for the son of successful middle-class migrants to support the Rwanda policy - to which the former chancellor responded: ‘No’
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
Tory leadership: Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak clash in heated BBC debate – as it happened
Latest updates: final two candidates exchange blows over plans for cost of living, levelling up and China
May 2022
The Andrew Neil Show review – back to his best with curry, porn and Jacob Rees-Mogg
After a grim era at GB News, the premier political interviewer’s cracking new show is bold, jokey … and managed to make Rees-Mogg seriously squirm
February 2022
Why GB News is the new Findus lasagne
David Mitchell
The news channel’s prickliness after a BBC presenter made a passing joke about ratings only made it funnier
Andrew Neil to host Sunday night political show on Channel 4
Live programme is Neil’s first major return to broadcasting following departure from GB News
Andrew Neil launches libel claim against Jennifer Arcuri after Epstein tweet
Boris Johnson’s former lover made claims about journalist’s inclusion in a contact book owned by Jeffrey Epstein
January 2022
Andrew Neil in talks with Channel 4 about weekly politics show
Possible move follows a brief and calamitous stint with the rightwing channel GB News last year
December 2021
Jon Snow’s exit marks the end of an era of TV news big beasts
Falling ratings for primetime news suggest the days when presenters were household names are drawing to a close
Andrew Neil threatens to sue Jennifer Arcuri after tweet about Epstein
Businesswoman had made claims about journalist’s inclusion in a contact book owned by Jeffrey Epstein
Trump talk with Nigel Farage plumped up ratings for GB News
First airing of interview at Florida resort watched by only 1.3% of British viewers at that hour, but numbers surpassed those for BBC and Sky news
November 2021
‘Journalists are PR department of Greenpeace’: Andrew Neil on climate crisis
Presenter also tells Freeview event he would like to return to British television
October 2021
The weekly beast
Jessica Rowe podcast turns sour over Pauline Hanson interview on ‘why she keeps going’
Amanda Meade
Former Today show host apologises after soft interview sparks fresh round of culture war. Plus: the Age again under pressure over Leunig
September 2021
Tearful Andrew Neil’s tales of woe about GB News leave his critics unmoved
LBC’s James O’Brien attacks veteran broadcaster’s ‘unfeasibly high opinion of himself’
Andrew Neil ‘almost had breakdown’ at GB News
Veteran presenter, who quit after eight shows, says technical faults and other problems ‘would have killed him’ if he had carried on
Rupert Murdoch’s launch of talkTV is about opportunism as much as ideology
Emily Bell
Piers Morgan will be presenting a nightly talkshow in this new venture aimed at outflanking the ailing GB News, says Emily Bell of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism
