The Australian-born American citizen Murdoch is at least now living in Oxfordshire with his fourth wife, Jerry Hall. The chairman and a founding partner of Legatum, the investment firm that stumped up some £20m to become co-lead investor in GB News, is the New Zealand-born, Dubai-based Christopher Chandler. The US media group Discovery Inc is the other co-lead investor. Its significant shareholder is John Malone, the libertarian and erstwhile Murdoch cable rival.
Neil intends GB News to be “proudly independent and fearless in tackling the issues people care about, especially in communities outside London”. It is true that the BBC does have a satisfaction problem (relatively speaking) among those licence-fee payers who live outside the wealthier, more diverse parts of the UK. The BBC’s internal research and that of the media regulator, Ofcom, suggests that people from poorer, less-diverse communities get less satisfied the farther they live from the south-east, with this proc
Rupert Murdoch, who praised NHS staff after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine last week. Photograph: Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez/AFP/Getty Images
Rupert Murdoch, who praised NHS staff after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine last week. Photograph: Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez/AFP/Getty Images
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I wonder whether the government’s decision to prioritise vaccinating the elderly in care homes has been the best strategy for managing the pandemic, or the best use of the limited supply of vaccines (Give NHS staff Covid vaccine now or face growing winter crisis, say hospital bosses, 18 December).
People in care homes are, on the whole, less mobile in society than those who work in the care homes or visit them, and they are the ones that can bring the virus in and should receive the vaccine.