{"id":89870,"date":"2024-06-23T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=89870"},"modified":"2025-10-05T16:12:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T20:12:41","slug":"the-amazing-range-of-things-britains-ofcom-gets-its-tentacles-into","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/06\/23\/the-amazing-range-of-things-britains-ofcom-gets-its-tentacles-into\/","title":{"rendered":"The amazing range of things Britain’s Ofcom gets its tentacles into"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, Mark Steyn<\/a> discussed the British government’s Office of Communications (Ofcom) and the way it rigs<\/span><\/strike> regulates who can say what during British election campaigns:<\/p>\n

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Why do I think the UK state censor Ofcom should be put out of business? Because there are very few areas of British life that this strange, secretive body does not “regulate”. Take, for example, this current UK election campaign, which the media are keen to keep as a torpid Potemkin struggle between TweedleLeft and TweedleRight. So, on Thursday night, BBC bigshot Fiona Bruce will host a debate between the four party leaders – that’s to say, the head honchos of the Conservatives, Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens.<\/p>\n

Wait a minute: what about Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform party? Since the beginning of the year, Reform has been third-placed in the polls<\/a>, ahead of the LibDems and Greens, and last week they rose to second place ahead of the unlovely Tories<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So why wouldn’t the second-place party get a spot in the leaders’ telly debate?<\/p>\n

Ah, well, you’re looking at it all wrong, you hick. Here’s how the Beeb explain it<\/a>:<\/p>\n