Media Analysis

GB News, the channel that challenges the British public service

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written by Antoine Lévêque · January 30, 2026 · 0 comment

The news channel is overtaking BBC News Channel in terms of average audience in the UK, and is acting as a megaphone for red-wall England in a climate of growing distrust of public broadcasting.

It's become the place to be for all those who refuse to submit to conventional wisdom. The British channel GB News, whose presenters include leading figures in British politics from the Conservative Party, the sovereignist wing of the Labour Party and the Reform UK party, offers a daily all-news service that rivals the BBC News Channel in terms of average audience.

Founded in 2021 with the aim of introducing greater pluralism among the country's major news channels, GB News fulfills this promise by regularly taking the opposite tack to the discourse broadcast by the public broadcaster. To do this, it uses

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