Mike Graham
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Literally, there are no local newspapers.
You know, when my kids grew up down in Sussex, the local newspaper obviously is now one of those storage units, you know, for putting your stuff in when you get thrown out of your wife's house.
That's the most Middle East comment.
Those are the early people.
Although my daughter actually once had to put stuff in.
She broke up with her boyfriend and she was moving.
And I heard some amazing stories from the woman who was running the storage facility, including one where a guy used to come in every Friday night into his storage unit, open the door, go inside, come out dressed as a woman.
and then go out and then come back sort of in the early hours of the morning, dressed back into a man and go home.
Anyway.
Yeah, very by the by.
And so I think as newspaper barons, I mean, you know, the Murdoch empire, for example, is still incredibly powerful, but not really because of newspapers anymore, because of the Fox TV network, you know, basically that makes so much money.
both from the football and also from the news and the politics.
The British operation has become slightly irrelevant.
It's still there, but the sun isn't as powerful as it used to be.
The Times seems to me to be a kind of apologist for the Labour government.
It doesn't really ask very many questions at all.
And it's all become a bit middle class, and it's all become a little bit kind of twee, I would say.
And I think most people in Britain don't like that.
Most people in Britain...
And I don't actually mind Giles Curran.