The Latest Breaking News from Angelos Frangopoulos

Ofcom rushes to close loophole that lets politicians act as newsreaders

Regulator drops investigations after GB news challenged rulings relating to Jacob Rees-Mogg reading news updates

The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2025

Ofcom opens probe into GB News after 75k complain about homophobic slur

MEDIA watchdog Ofcom has launched an investigation into GB News after a programme carried discriminatory comments about LGBT people ...

The National (Scotland) · Mar 17, 2025

Six more investigations discontinued by Ofcom after GB News rulings quashed

Investigations had begun into former minister Jake Berry, ex-MEP Alex Phillips and former deputy Reform UK leader David Bull.

Evening Standard · Mar 17, 2025

Ofcom says GB news is not impartial, but how can that be true? It has every kind of wingnut going

Home to odd Tory MPs and conspiracy theorists, the channel is a broad church – except when it comes to those who follow the rules, says the Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK · Oct 24, 2023

OPINION - Advertising boycotts are a threat to free speech

GB News hasn’t had a good couple of weeks — not since Laurence Fox made asinine and cruel comments about Ava Evans, whose views he took exception to. He has now been sacked and so has the presenter Calvin Robinson, and the presenter Dan Wootton (who got 8,000 complaints via…

Evening Standard · Oct 5, 2023

Laurence Fox fired by GB News after suspension for misogynistic rant as house is raided by police

The divisive former actor was widely criticised following the ugly outburst in which he asked about the political journalist Ava Evans “who would want to shag her?”

The Independent UK · Oct 4, 2023

‘It’s crunch time’: GB News bosses meet to avert more censure after Ofcom inquiries

Appointment to board of banker who ran rightwing social media platform Parler suggests channel will not turn its back on radical libertarianism

The Guardian - UK · Sep 30, 2023

GB News’ Calvin Robinson is third presenter suspended in three days

Robinson had expressed solidarity with Dan Wootton, saying standing up for him was ‘standing up for the very idea of GB News’

The Guardian - UK · Sep 29, 2023

GB News boss defends Lee Anderson ‘interview’ with Braverman as Ofcom step back

The boss of GB News has insisted that an “interview” of Home Secretary Suella Braverman by her Conservative colleague Lee Anderson will be…

The National (Scotland) · Sep 29, 2023

GB News boss says Laurence Fox’s comments about Ava Evans ‘way past the limits of acceptance’

GB News boss Angelos Frangopoulos has said comments made by Laurence Fox about journalist Ava Evans on the channel were “way past the limits of acceptance”.

Evening Standard · Sep 29, 2023