BBC? Channel 4? Radio? With audience levels falling and falling, how relevant they are compared to what they used to be 10, 20 or 30 years ago? How the digital era, including social media, have changed in terms of public opinion, in terms of their influence in decision making? This is an open conversation to talk frankly and politely.
This is about communication and about being able to listen to a wide range of points of view while keeping an open mind. Given what is going on in Europe, is there a mass media war?
Are anti-Russian measures and mass media policies leading to financial, social and political chaos in Britain and in Europe? Inflation is out of control, interest rates are rising, industrial unrest in increasing, both public debt and private debt are growing faster and faster, and countries could become unstable.
In Britain, more than a quarter of about 2.1 million mortgages could be in danger putting the banking system, once again, in danger, causing a lot more than a mere recession. What are your thoughts?
In the meantime, in Britain, as a defining moment gets closer, it is understandable that tensions will rise, but tensions will soon be followed by an anti-climax when the decision is made and minds are focused on what will be the next Cabinet.
As soon as the new Cabinet is known, there will be hyperactivity in both political parties.
Somehow, the initial thought was that the rise of industrial unrest would be benefit the Labour Party. What now transpires is that industrial unrest has opened a gap within the Labour Party because there are marked differences between the Leadership of the Labour Party and the Parliamentary Labour Party. As the Conservative Party gives whoever is chosen as Leader the benefit of the doubt - a sort of political honeymoon - the day after the honeymoon has already started within the Labour Party. It is going to be rough.
If rules regarding leadership contests are changed in the Labour Party, then Andy Burham and Sadiq Khan could become contenders. Should Liz Truss become Prime Minister, the pressure to chose a woman leader in the Labour Party will be unbearable and the present Deputy Leader would have more than one reason to challenge Keir Starmer as a female and as somebody who could be closer to the Trade Union Movement.
Let us remember that all the aforementioned events have as background a crisis of major proportions at an international level and that whoever is in power in Britain and in other countries in Europe will have to deal with.
Time: Aug 7, 2022 06:00 PM London
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