Reposted by Edward Dickinson
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy.
It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
![Among the complaints upheld by the investigator are that Orr allegedly made belittling
remarks to the student, and had demanded an “excessive” and “unreasonable” amount of
written work in an effort to refine a thesis proposal. The report also criticised “at worst
inappropriate and at best thoughtless comments made [by Orr] in the equally
inappropriate context of [Orr’s] own home”. This was in reference to a dinner that the
student, who comes from a Christian, conservative background, had attended at Orr’s
house.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lp27scbhcz4sl5eidxkq2l7f/bafkreib46c4cywfrvxjqqr7tx264l67lenpv23ofkmrhapx3lt24ix7unm)
