Jolyon whines about views on GB News

Fresh from its humiliating climbdown over the Dr Jason Arday scandal, Good Law Project (GLP) has launched yet another attempt to stifle free speech — this time against GB News.

Yesterday, the self-proclaimed ‘Queer’ magazine Attitude  reported  that Ofcom had opened two investigations against the channel over alleged homophobic “rhetoric”.

The first revolves around comments made by journalist Caroline Farrow in July during a discussion on Alex Armstrong Tonight regarding the forthcoming Pride in London 2026. Farrow criticised the event as a “very sexualised display”, and lamented that Pride is no longer about gay rights but celebrating “unhealthy kinks and quirks”.

She also drew attention to the rebranding of paedophilia as “minor-attraction”. The comments came less than a year after Stephen Ireland was  jailed for 24 years  for raping a 12-year-old boy — a crime that was facilitated by his position as co-founder of Pride in Surrey.

UK Pride events  have long catered  to niche sexualities, including “pups, furries and kinksters”, as well as “age play ” where individuals role-play child sexual abuse. In August 2021 campaign group Fair Cop  obtained photographs  of Wiltshire Police endorsing kinks at a Pride event which included the “age play” flag.

The second complaint centres on comments by Syntyche Djunga on The Saturday Five the previous month, following the  sentencing of Preston Davey’s adoptive parents  for the 13-month-old’s rape and murder. Djunga claimed that male same-sex couples are “more prone to…child sexual assault with their adopted children.”

While research in this area is limited and contested, a  study  of child services in Illinois suggested that same-sex adoptive or foster parents were “proportionately more apt to abuse foster or adoptive children sexually.”

The two cases triggered thousands of complaints, including from GLP. Ofcom has now confirmed that both programmes are now subject to Standards investigations. Naturally, Jolyon’s project is taking credit, with the organisation telling Attitude that its complaint helped lead to the formal investigations.

Commenting on GLP’s intervention, LGB Alliance CEO Kate Barker said: “Many LGB people agree with Caroline. We are appalled at how our Pride has been corrupted, with a relentless focus on sexual behaviour rather than sexual orientation. Rather than clamping down on free speech, Good Law Project should be standing for the many lesbians and gay men excluded or expelled from Pride for the ‘crime’ of stating that homosexuality means being attracted to one’s own sex.”

GLP has long sought to muzzle GB News. On its website GLP claim “rightwing channel GB News regularly flouts standards on impartiality and broadcasts hate, which is unlawful. We’re putting pressure on the regulator and advertisers to take decisive action and hold GB News to account.”

Following comments made by comedian and presenter Josh Howie on Headliners in January 2025, GLP supporters urged supporters to complain to Ofcom, ultimately gathering 71,851 complaints through an online reporting tool.

The regulator opened a formal investigation in March and later ruled that the programme had breached its Broadcasting Code. Headliners was axed while the investigation was under way, although GB News said the decision was down to low ratings. Ofcom did find against GBN. GLP later claimed the cancellation of the show as a victory.