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The reason the UK doesn't have hyper-partisan television news is because of the regulation of broadcast television (i.e. Ofcom). There is an effort to start a

• vixen99 6y ago
  The instigator and driving force of the supposed 'Fox News equivalent' is Andrew Neil. Try putting it to him that he's 'hyper-partisan'! Neil is anything but that, as unprepared politicians across the spectrum from left to right have discovered to their cost.
  • lawtalkinghuman 6y ago
    He's a professional journalist and while on the BBC, he has competently cross-examined politicians of any party or background, but to pretend he's not on the right is silly, as Ben Shapiro found out to his detriment. That said, we shall have to wait and see whether Neil continues to be vigorous in his questioning of those on the right when he's on a channel that doesn't have the BBC's theoretical commitment to non-partisan neutrality.