If you follow Andrew Neil on Twitter you’ll see that he has, in my view, completely given up on any veneer of impartiality recently. I can’t see how the BBC could have him back now that he has blatantly become a mouthpiece of The Spectator (who he’s Chairman of). When he was on the BBC regularly he seemed to downplay his role at The Spectator. The magazine, one of the oldest in the world, has increased its subscribers recently by going down quite a hard Brexit angle and is fro t and centre in trying to bring the culture wars to the U.K.
If you follow Andrew Neil on Twitter you’ll see that he has, in my view, completely given up on any veneer of impartiality recently. I can’t see how the BBC could have him back now that he has blatantly become a mouthpiece of The Spectator (who he’s Chairman of). When he was on the BBC regularly he seemed to downplay his role at The Spectator. The magazine, one of the oldest in the world, has increased its subscribers recently by going down quite a hard Brexit angle and is fro t and centre in trying to bring the culture wars to the U.K.
If you follow Andrew Neil on Twitter you’ll see that he has, in my view, completely given up on any veneer of impartiality recently. I can’t see how the BBC could have him back now that he has blatantly become a mouthpiece of The Spectator (who he’s Chairman of). When he was on the BBC regularly he seemed to downplay his role at The Spectator. The magazine, one of the oldest in the world, has increased its subscribers recently by going down quite a hard Brexit angle and is fro t and centre in trying to bring the culture wars to the U.K.
That's nice, but this is a TV Forum.
Regardless of whether we agree with the point or not, I think it’s a perfectly legitimate discussion point for TV Forum to question the the tenability of one BBC’s senior political presenters.
If you follow Andrew Neil on Twitter you’ll see that he has, in my view, completely given up on any veneer of impartiality recently. I can’t see how the BBC could have him back now that he has blatantly become a mouthpiece of The Spectator (who he’s Chairman of). When he was on the BBC regularly he seemed to downplay his role at The Spectator. The magazine, one of the oldest in the world, has increased its subscribers recently by going down quite a hard Brexit angle and is fro t and centre in trying to bring the culture wars to the U.K.
That's nice, but this is a TV Forum.
In the context of new DG Tim Davie apparently clamping down on the social media profiles of many BBC presenters, particularly news personalities, I think it is relevant.
And for context I am a huge fan of AN, but I think I've had enough.
If you follow Andrew Neil on Twitter you’ll see that he has, in my view, completely given up on any veneer of impartiality recently. I can’t see how the BBC could have him back now that he has blatantly become a mouthpiece of The Spectator (who he’s Chairman of). When he was on the BBC regularly he seemed to downplay his role at The Spectator. The magazine, one of the oldest in the world, has increased its subscribers recently by going down quite a hard Brexit angle and is fro t and centre in trying to bring the culture wars to the U.K.
That's nice, but this is a TV Forum.
Regardless of whether we agree with the point or not, I think it’s a perfectly legitimate discussion point for TV Forum to question the the tenability of one BBC’s senior political presenters.
He wasn't though. (Nice try!) He was banging on about Brexit. No place for that here.
Just watched a segment of the Spectator TV show. Looking at the figures, it’s performing pretty well, but they need to upgrade the production standards ASAP. Lockdown isn’t an excuse for the dire opening sequence and Andrew Neil should at least have a quality iPhone and lighting rig at home rather than hunching over a phone in a dark room with the pic quality you’d expect from a video call with your grandmother! That’s just my view though. I guess if they can monitise without spending even a penny then good on them.
On the first Edition, he was presenting from what I presume was his home in France, He had a clock on a table in the background which was on French Time. It's been Zoom Backgrounds since. It's a great idea for the magazine which knows it's market and they have more than enough on-air talent to do it, but they really need someone to handle the tech side.