Britain’s broadcast regulator Ofcom has revoked the UK licence of Kremlin-backed broadcaster RT with immediate effect. Ofcom chief executive Dame Melanie Dawes said: “Freedom of expression is something we guard fiercely in this country, and the bar for action on broadcasters is rightly set very high. “Following an independent regulatory process, we have today found that RT is not fit and proper to hold a licence in the UK. As a result we have revoked RT’s UK broadcasting licence.” RT, formerly Russia Today, is already off air in the UK due to the sanctions imposed on Russia following the country’s invasion of Ukraine. Ofcom said it is conducting 29 investigations into “the due impartiality of RT’s news and current affairs coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.” It said: “We consider the volume and potentially serious nature of the issues raised within such a short period to be of great concern—especially …