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Ofcom closes barn door, points at the horse in the distance.
GB News has breached the rules again and the regulator is really, really going to do something about it next time.
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TalkTV’s broadcast shutdown isn’t about money…
… it’s about influence and ageing. Rupert Murdoch simply found it too embarrassing.
Mar 7
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The Enemy Within (Remix)
Rishi Sunak reheated an old 80s hit with a fascist backbeat and the opposition and most of the media joined in on backing vocals.
Mar 3
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Mic Wright
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February 2024
If Starmer wins, The Sun won't be wot won it...
... and it never was. The myth of Murdoch the Kingmaker most serves the man himself.
Feb 28
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Mic Wright
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The Paul Marshall Plan
Marshall's extremist views are a perfect fit for The Daily Telegraph, yet the rest of the media ignore them or cling to a nostalgic idea of a paper…
Feb 24
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Furrowed brows at the Clown College
Political journalists did a bad job of pretending farcical scenes in Parliament didn't delight them.
Feb 22
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How are non-U?
On the Marmite history of Nancy Mitford-style commandments on what's posh and what's not...
Feb 15
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Mic Wright
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Starring Piers Morgan as Norma Desmond
Piers Morgan is trying to make his retreat from broadcast television sound like a victory. You'd need a heart of stone not to laugh.
Feb 12
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Mic Wright
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A more elegant way of being awful
The British media's columnists and commentators were bothered by Sunak's trans jibe only because it made them feel awkward.
Feb 8
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Mic Wright
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Absolute King shit.
The news of King Charles' cancer diagnosis has supercharged the papers' parasocial relationship with a man who hates them.
Feb 7
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"A perfectly normal girl."
Almost inevitably, the naming of Brianna Ghey's murderers was a ghoulishly gleeful event for parts of the British press.
Feb 4
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January 2024
Arrested simply for being Jeremy Clarkson.
TV's most famous fake farmer shows he (and his editors at The Sunday Times) care diddly squat about quoting accurately.
Jan 31
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Mic Wright
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