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Brentford have never ended a single PL matchday lower than 16th. Brentford are one of only ten clubs with a +GD in an all-time Premier League table. Brentford have scored more PL goals than Man Utd since their promotion. Some mind-boggling numbers: football365.com/news/brentford…

What ⁦Ofcom⁩ needs to do after defeat in the High Court by ⁦GB News⁩. My blog is at profpurvis.com

This is a must-read article by Stewart Purvis about the implications of the legal case between GB News and Ofcom, and the wider implications for broadcast impartiality in the UK: profpurvis.com/2025/03/17/wha…

Impt iv: Stewart Purvis (ex Ofcom) on fallout of Ofcom v GB News high court decision."What's at stake is the future of broadcast journalism. The system is creaking, & we need to decide whether we're going to resolve some of the issues which have arisen." 🎧podfollow.com/beebwatch

I’m in Shanghai researching Ursula Kuczynski of the Hampstead Spies family and this is the hotel cafe where she met the woman who connected her to the kGB. My next updated ‘Atomic Spies’ guided walk for London Walks is on May 17. walks.com/our-walks/hamp…

Sunset on the board walk in Fremantle, Western Australia, having a beer with my son Tom . Not a bad way to spend a Friday evening.

Now that’s what I call a restricted view in the away section. Ipswich Town v #brentfordfc

But according to para 2.35 politicians could still present ‘current affairs programmes’. So no change to ‘Farage’ etc. Try to make sense of this: politicians cannot do ‘news interviews’ but they can do ‘current affairs interviews’ about the news of the day.

Stewart Purvis The exceptional editorial justification caveat seems completely pointless and a sure setup to another Ofcom day out at the High Court. A worthless change that still offers no definitive ruling on politicians presenting news content

In Nagasaki, Japan for more research on ‘Hampstead Spies:the Atomic Secrets’ my guided walk for ⁦London Walks⁩. How two scientists were recruited as spies in London NW3. I will be back in time for Saturday 17th May. Book here: walks.com/our-walks/hamp…

Ofcom digs itself into another regulatory hole as Farage returns to presenting on GB News. profpurvis.com

Five months after my appointment was made for this Wednesday these two contradictory texts arrived today. Royal Free London

July 11 2025 will be the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia when over 7,000 were killed. Bodies are still being found. This was the scene at the memorial today.

Fascinating trip to Bosnia where a ‘two state solution’ jigsaw was imposed by USA and the international community 30 years ago. Communities at war now living in tentative peace policed by European Union Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Supporters of Gaza here looking for parallels.

Still unsure how this is allowed on a “news & current affairs” Channel or programme. How can it be right that the “leader /owner” & sitting MP is allowed to push his own narrative as a presenter on a station or programme ? alan rusbridger Stewart Purvis 1/

See why we don't think that politicians should be presenting "current affairs" programmes in our submission here & send your own views to Ofcom vlv.org.uk/wp-content/upl… Leo Watkins

New evidence that Ofcom’s plan to solve their GB News problem won’t work. They need to do what Parliament intended on impartiality . My submission with Chris Banatvala is at profpurvis.com.

I’ve now blogged about this at profpurvis.com

Anybody looking back through the Instagrams previously posted and reposted by Bob Vylan, especially clips from their set at Coachella in California in April, would not have been entirely surprised by what they said at Glastonbury on Saturday.

Sandy Gall, who has died aged 97, had a brilliant reporting career at Reuters and ITN. I’ll never forget the day in 1991 when he called me to say, ever so modestly, that he had scooped the rest of the world’s media with the first report from Operation Desert Storm inside Kuwait.