Last month, after just three months and only eight shows, Andrew Neil confirmed what everyone already knew: he had left GB News. It looked for a moment as though the premise of an “anti-woke” TV news channel was fundamentally dead. But within days, there was another development in the right-wing media landscape: Piers Morgan announced that he would be helming Rupert Murdoch’s talkTV when it launches next year, seemingly filling the void left by Neil.
If GB News has moved too far to the right for Neil (in a recent interview, he referred to it as “Ukip TV”), and Murdoch senses a gap in the partisan news market, where does this leave some of the UK’s left-wing media start-ups? Over the past ten years, a wave of platforms such as the Canary (founded in 2015), Evolve Politics (2015), Novara Media (2011), Skwawkbox (2012) and Another Angry Voice (2010) have identified a radical left-shaped hole in the media landscape. Many of these built on audiences inspired by Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party.
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