Why I go on GB News… 1. I think it will be around a while as they care about entertainment value over news value and that makes for more engaging TV (that’s not a good thing, but it’s why they’re beating sky in viewership, which is too SW1 focussed anyway).
2. I genuinely believe if you express an argument well you can change people’s minds. Maybe not immediately, or a majority, but you can plant seeds - especially if you care about being persuasive to broadest possible audience.
3. I enjoy talking to people I disagree with, and having to justify what I think. The tendency of modern left to avoid debate to it’s right has imo left it with many unpersuasive and/or weak ideas.
4. On some of the shows you do get a decent chance to put your ideas across and have a reasoned debate (principally, Rees-Mogg and Dewberry). That said, I won’t be doing Lee Anderson’s show again!
@michaeljswalker That's the kind of rubbish you hear on GB News. The modern left is quite happy to debate. It's the right with its anti protest legislation, condemnation of everything as wokery that dislikes arguments it disagrees with.
@michaeljswalker No better way to exemplify GBnews attitude towards the left than this though
@michaeljswalker Is your view that 'the modern left avoid debate' just a little sweeping Michael? Could it be that the 'modern left' don't get many invites. Could it also be that your views are tolerated and not considered a threat? If you thought differently you might not get the invite?
@michaeljswalker Absolutely. I remember engaging in conversation for a whole evening with somebody in a German bar when I was much younger. We never agreed on anything, but my/their thoughts were challenged and scrutinised. We shook hands at the end. A lost art now.