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Sir Ian Cheshire has been named the preferred candidate to become the next Chair of Ofcom. The announcement was made by Technology Secretary Liz Kendall. Sir Ian, a seasoned business leader, is best known for his recent role as Chair of Channel 4, a position he held from 2022 until April 2025. His appointment is subject to a pre-appointment hearing by the Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee. If confirmed, he will succeed Lord Michael Grade, whose four-year term concludes at the end of April 2026. Sir Ian brings extensive experience from senior leadership roles across the private sector, including as CEO of Kingfisher and non-executive director roles at BT and Barclays. He will take on the part-time role at a salary of £120,000 per year. As the new Chair, Sir Ian Cheshire will lead Ofcom at a critical time, with major responsibilities including the full implementation of the Online Safety Act, regulating social media giants like X (formerly Twitter), and overseeing a significant review of the UK's telecoms sector. His appointment ends weeks of speculation, during which Labour peer Baroness Margaret Hodge and former Conservative Culture Secretary Sir Jeremy Wright were also considered frontrunners.

@sophielouisecc How this community focused Sheffield boxing club is giving people a fighting chance in life. Within just a few weeks of starting up his project, crime on the Manor dropped by 37 per cent and fires in the area reduced by half. share.google/2bf6qFrbG4uidU…

Youth clubs do absolutely naff all to prevent violent crime It’s a cop out

🚨 WTF!!! Donald Trump calls into a rally attended by Vance to back Viktor Orbán: “The United States is with him all the way.” And praises Orbán for keeping Hungary “strong” and free from “invasion.” An American president openly endorsing a European leader ahead of an election. This is FAR from normal.

Hey @FIFAcom @FIFAWorldCup you need to remove the world cup from America hosting it It's not safe and the president is openly taking about crimes Cancel them from hosting

Dear @FIFAcom @FIFAWorldCup Do you feel any remorse whatsoever for choosing the maniac warmonger for a fake peace prize? First time in my life this world cup can get in the bin. Cowards, the lot of you. cc @FA

If the absolute folly of the King's State Visit to America is seriously going ahead the most useful thing he could do is remind Trump that the English people beheaded one of his ancestors for claiming Divine Right as his own.

Can the Secret Service say they are protecting the President (from himself) by taking him into custody? Asking for the world.

Banning Kayne West, but giving Trump two state visits and then the King going to see him feels a bit like mixed messaging.

@PeterJ24805519 @BenDempsey18 @piersmorgan Yes, I know. I've already addressed the misleading data and the many flaws. Not least studies on how America hides rape stats. Now do Epstein Island data. Sort your own rapists and paedophiles out.

@SarahSWFC1867 @BenDempsey18 @piersmorgan Looks like Wikipedia

We have barely any gun crime, and are not standing on the edge of any Islamist abyss. Other than that, spot on. 👍

@Vincemonee @BenDempsey18 @piersmorgan Another shithouse blocking me because he doesn't like the reply. Now do Epstein Island.

@Vincemonee @BenDempsey18 @piersmorgan Thanks. If you go straight to the source (United Nations) You'll see the highest is Grenada. That list was not comparing the same years. Wiki also mentions difficult to compare due to definition & bent reporting eg How to Lie with Rape Statistics: America's Hidden Rape Crisis

@DellsGlenn82289 @BenDempsey18 @piersmorgan We definitely have a rape issue but it's not an "Islamic Abyss" as suggested.

@SarahSWFC1867 @BenDempsey18 @piersmorgan Selected Reported Rape Rates (Per 100,000 Inhabitants) The following data reflects officially reported statistics, often from 2022–2023: Sweden: ~90–200 per 100,000 (variations due to reporting methods) England and Wales: 117.3 per 100,000 Iceland: 57 per 100,000France: ~52.5–72.

@DellsGlenn82289 @BenDempsey18 @piersmorgan Thanks. If you go straight to the source (United Nations) You'll see the highest is Grenada. That list was not comparing the same years. Wiki also mentions difficult to compare due to definition & bent reporting eg How to Lie with Rape Statistics: America's Hidden Rape Crisis

@RobertJenrick Look after our own..... no not those, the ones I can get the tax bill fucked off for! We see you. I say this as no fan of Labour, Reeves and Starmer but your brass neck vibes are strong.

Reeves pats herself on the back. The woman who once ludicrously posed as the Iron Chancellor, hiked taxes, wasted billions on benefits, destroyed jobs and crushed economic growth. She’s totally out of her depth.

Dear Americans, Your President is a Pedophile

@BenDempsey18 @piersmorgan Where in that screenshot does it mention rape? Post the link, not the screenshot. That literally means fuck all, especially as Epstein Island is omitted.

@piersmorgan You have the highest number of rapes per capita.

@RealJamesWoods 🤣 good story bro. You bent over to the make-up loving, con artist, war mongering, sex offender but yeah, enjoy holding your weapon in one hand and flacid cocks in the other whilst we celebrate zero kids getting shot dead in school this year. Again.

Our friends, the Brits, went from relinquishing their right to bear arms in 1997 to standing on the edge of the Islamist abyss today. Our Second Amendment is not about the right to go duck hunting, folks. It’s about keeping power in the hands of The People.

🤡 You really couldn’t make it up. GB News losing money… and now asking for public funding. After years of attacking BBC and public service broadcasting, GB News now wants taxpayer support. So it’s “state bad”… until they need it.

@RepYassAnsari Sadly your colleagues daren't say no to a man unused to no - in more ways than one. You're as strong as your weakest link and the chain is full of cowards.

The 25th Amendment exists for a reason. The President of the United States is a deranged lunatic, and a national security threat to our country and the rest of the world.

Hegseth: We don’t announce anything before we do it. That would be dumb. Got that, stupid journalists? Trump: I’m going to blow you up on Tuesday.