@Packingsoapandwater
For those talking about production values, you've obviously forgotten what This Week on the BBC used to look like. Half the time, the set looked as though it was stuck together with Sellotape.
To be fair, I watched a GB News segment yesterday about the immigrant boats in the channel. They were interviewing a local fisherman, and it was a rather refreshing perspective. There wasn't any "heat" in the exchange, no combative set-up, and no obvious political angle being pushed forward. It was as though the fisherman was talking about, I dunno, the phenomenon of renegade pedalos on a local boating lake. 
It felt like a quite liberal take to me, very tempered, and it was nice to hear about that situation without the whole "fire and brimstone" from both left and right over the matter. I was left with the feeling that the most pressing issue was the boats crossing busy shipping lanes, and how that affects trade logistics and the health and safety of those crossing.
I'll watch the channel again.
So will I.
On opening night Michelle Dewberry said: "...she would air the views of people who are told “if you don’t conform to an acceptable opinion you will be called racist or xenophobic.” Furthermore, other presenters/journalists have said the channel is dedicating to fighting 'cancel culture'.
This is needed. Recently, I commented on a football fans website that I understood why the England footballers were being booed, when 'taking the knee' - I explained that I wouldn't do it myself by-the-way, but I knew why it upset some fans who see the gesture intertwined with #BLM and although the footballers have tried to distance themselves from that movement, many fans don't accept it.
I even tried to suggest an alternative display of unity - standing arm-in-arm around a 'Kick-out racism' banner.
But within a couple of hours everyone piled on and the next day, when I tried to login, I was banned!
P.S. Yesterday the show had a very interesting thing about Primary aged children being taught about 'white priviledge'....!
See: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/15/primary-school-pupils-should-learn-white-privilege-says-re-teachers/
(I paste the article as it is from a paid news site, and if I'm ever asked to teach this, that would be it for me after 25 years of teaching, 100% of which has been in diverse schools. I'm NOT suffering from 'unconscious bias' and I would be insulted if anyone suggested otherwise):
"Primary school pupils should be taught about white privilege, religious education (RE) teachers have been told in new curriculum guidance.
Lessons should introduce children aged 8-11 to the “key concept” of white privilege, described as invisible benefits that society affords to people “because of their whiteness”, according to the National Association of Teachers of Religious Education (NATRE).
The national representative body’s “anti-racist” curriculum also recommends primary pupils learn about “reasons why Bristol’s statue of Edward Colston was racially offensive”. It links to a webpage on Sikh support for Black Lives Matter, who toppled it.
The materials, seen by The Telegraph, are designed to help schools include black, Asian and ethnic minority people in RE syllabuses, which are determined locally unlike other subjects.
Primary teachers are also urged to recognise their own unconscious bias in class, as it “can make it hard for some to identify systemic racism”.
An attached glossary of key ideas for RE teachers cites put-downs and jokes as microaggressions that can “reinforce white power”, and adds: “It’s important to engage with the idea that racism is a problem for white people, rather than for black people.”
A section on the legacies of slavery tells teachers “the complicity of Christians in the enslavement of millions is an untold story” because of the “sugar coating” of Christian history which has a “shameful stain” of the Atlantic slave trade.
But on Tuesday, experts questioned whether the guide was appropriate.
Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester between 1994 and 2009, said: “The situation in the educational institutions is that white working class boys are at the bottom of the pile. So what does it mean to teach them that they are privileged?”
He said there was “no question” that Christians were instrumental in the abolition of slavery but that schools have a “presumption” to dwell on the negative.
Toby Young, of the Free Speech Union, added: “Teachers and teaching associations think that telling children Britain is a racist country is an incontestable fact, even though, according to international survey evidence, Britain is one of the least racist countries in the world.”