Big in India, unwanted in the UK!

I was finally removed from appearing on all mainstream UK channels from 2017. The BBC were the first to stop the invites, followed rapidly by Sky News, Channel 4, ITV and LBC! I regularly appeared on many of their political programmes for several years before that and spoke as plainly then as I do now. I suppose the BBC had me on most often BUT given my vocal support for Brexit and for Trump in 2016, someone somewhere decided to put me on the “do not invite” list! This complete ban extends to even the “new” platforms like GB News and Talk TV. (I assume my vocal anti-vaccine social media posts were responsible for the latter ban)

So, I am not allowed to appear on ANY UK mainstream media channel. And I am happy about that. I saw how it works, I understand the little back channels that ensure “certain” voices are pushed and why. I want nothing to do with it and my profile has increased during these banned years no thanks to any of them. I always found the BBC interviews incredibly hostile and it was always 2 vs 1. The only reason I did them was because I didn’t think anyone else was saying the things I said. I recall being mocked in 2015 because I supported Trump and it was obvious that this was frowned upon if you were unapologetic about it, which I was!

All of which what happened during the past 48 hours ironic in the extreme. I had posted over on my Twitter/X platform my support for India’s “Operation Sindoor” against the rogue failed state Pakistan. This was picked up on X and I gained around 10,000 new followers and invites to appear across most main Indian TV outlets.

Here is just one of these;

Isn’t it telling that India is happy to talk to me but the UK shuns me?

The Bible has a line on that;

“Then Jesus told them, “A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own hometown and among his relatives and his own family.”

I am NOT claiming to be a prophet but I am observing how UK media ban me yet other countries embrace me.

It’s a funny old world.

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