News about Michael Crick

Investigative reporter Michael Crick has joined a backlash against changes to the flagship BBC2 current affairs programme as part of corporation-wide plans to save £500million. The show, currently presented by Victoria Derbyshire, is lined up to be cut from 40 to 30 minutes while losing more than half its staff - with a new approach involvement more Question Time-style live debates. Its team of dedicated reporters is being dropped and the show's own investigative films will cease, in a move ex-Newsnight political editor Crick today condemned - as he warned a 'grossly inferior' show is likely. Viewers of Newsnight, which launched in January 1980, have almost halved to 300,000 since 2020 - while Jeremy Paxman 's final show in 2014 was watched by 1.1million people, though this was double the average at the time.

Michael Crick, a veteran journalist, has said he was 'expelled' from a GB News studio after saying that the channel was "biased and right-wing" during a discussion of free expression. The 65-year-old, a founding member of Channel 4 News in 1982, has also stated his wish that regulator Ofcom stop running the show. After a Tory MP, two leaders of the Conservative Party, and barely Labour MPs, appearing on a GB News panel show hosted by Neil Oliver on Saturday evening to discuss media censorship, Mr Crick said it's absurd that you have Tory MP after Tory MP. You are on a right-wing channel, and the country's (about impartiality) laws are quite straightforward.' During the discussion, Mr Oliver referred to Mr Crick's previous remarks that GB News "should be shut down." Mr Crick, a former Political Editor for The Daily Mail and a former Newsnight reporter, said he had not changed his mind, describing the channel as 'biased and right wing.'

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Andrew Lownie has failed in his attempt to find out if Scotland Yard ever investigated Prince Andrew's allegations against him under the Freedom of Information Act. He asked if police had looked into her allegations of being trafficked to the United Kingdom, and, if not, who had ordered that the probe be dropped. The Met replied, "We cannot confirm or deny that details in connection with any suspect's allegations are known." Lownie says, although Andrew has always denied the allegations and settled her civil lawsuit with no admission of guilt, the public is entitled to know if the police ever bothered to look into the allegations against the Duke of York.' We need certainty. Let's hope that the police do not consider that the Royal Family is above the law.'

Michael Crick has always been properly fitted and booted throughout his decades of television broadcasting experience. And now, Newsnight's senior political editor has lamented the shift in corporate attire, which has seen the humble tie be phased out. According to Crick, it's'sad' that so many companies are encouraging employees to break ties as the only way that men can 'express themselves' in the workplace.

When Lee Anderson was asked about setting up the doorknock with a friend posing as a regular voter in the 2019 general election campaign, he clashed with a BBC local radio host. In reaction, the MP for Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, asked broadcaster Verity Cowley ten times if she had ever told a lie.

Sir David Butler, a pioneering journalist who appeared in 1964 with his Swingometer; top right in 1979 and bottom right in 2015), then continued reporting elsewhere on poll nights until 2010. He was 25 years old when he made his election night debut and was widely known for coining the term of the swing, indicating that the vote moves from one party to another among polls. The Swingometer was introduced in 1955 in a world famous invention that has been used by the BBC at every election since its debut. Sir David used the word 'psephology' for his art, which came from the Greek word 'psephos' for pebble. Ancient Greeks used pebbles to vote in elections. Michael Crick, his biographer, paid tribute to him by naming him the 'father of psephology' in honor of his death.'

Rosamund Pike, a Hollywood actress, has trampled her Wadham College roots by filming a new film with Brad Pitt at nearby rival Christ Church (inset below), in the RICHARD EDEN. Following the three-year fight to depose its controversial dean Martyn Percy, the college, one of the city's most venerable, may be keen to earn money (inset, above). Percy, the senior cleric and president of the college who resigned this year after arriving a settlement that involved a substantial pay raise, was the senior cleric and president of college. I'm happy to announce that Rosamund (right) and Brad Pitt (left) were spirited in at night for an evening of filming.