A sliver of good news to cheer you up amongst all the bleak and horrible crap flying at you is the plight of GB News and Talk TV. The latter Murdoch-owned channel is going online and abandoning normal transmission because of huge losses (Piers Morgan has already jumped ship and gone on Youtube) and it's recently been announced that GB News is drastically pruning staff after losses of £74m (I've seen quoted). Audiences as low as 30,000 at "peak" times just can't sustain its survival. They signed Boris Johnson several months ago as a star presenter but they're still waiting for him to put in an appearance (he's finishing his memoirs apparently) and rumours are that he's having second thoughts after such disastrous viewing figures.

Rhees-Mogg was being paid over £340,000 a year for his show on GB News but they're having to pare salaries to the bone, and again there's been nasty rumours that the station will have to go solely online like Talk TV.

Small crumbs of joy, perhaps, but crumbs nevertheless.