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Scotland, England and Wales will get their chance later, but the opening series of
This Union: A Sea Between Us is an attempt to take the temperature of Northern Irish politics by someone who grew up during the worst of the Troubles. Specifically, Catherwood is looking at unionism at a time of huge turmoil thanks to Brexit, the Northern Ireland Protocol and political in-fighting within the DUP. All this in the country’s centenary year. Some birthday. In this first episode Catherwood, who herself grew up in Belfast during the Troubles, looked specifically at loyalism. There is always a danger that loyalism is conflated with unionism. They can overlap but they are not necessarily the same thing. Catherwood didn’t fall into that trap. Instead, she painted a portrait of a divided, angry group, predated on by gangsters calling themselves paramilitaries.
16 Jul 2021
The Andrew Neil-run GB News, which touted itself as the ‘anti-woke’ antidote to the mainstream media, has apologised after one of its presenters took the Black Lives Matter-inspired knee on air in response to racist abuse directed at three black England players on social media after Italy defeated the team in the Euro 2020 finals on Sunday.
The move came after reports that since the Marxist-linked gesture was made, some broadcasts on GB News had attracted zero viewers according to the industry-standard Barb figures.
On Tuesday’s show co-host Guto Harri, a former BBC journalist and Boris Johnson’s former spin doctor, told fellow host Mercy Muroki and GB News viewers as he positioned himself at the front of the set and got down on one knee: “With the benefit of hindsight, I may have underestimated how close to the surface the racism still was.