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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: “I watched GB News so you don’t have to” – Gavin Esler on his TV nightmare
Description: Could you watch GB News for a whole month? Gavin Esler did, in the name of research. What he experienced was a nightmare mix of confected anger, wild conspiracy and resentment designed to make its viewers feel like victims. GB News might be a joke but its growing social media presence is spreading and detoxifying the hard right views of some very powerful people. Gavin tells Andrew Harrison why we need to start taking Britain’s most absurd TV channel much more seriously.• “I am a recovering GB News watcher. I have to say, it was an ordeal...