Wasn’t this precisely the kind of Budget many voters expected when they elected a Labour government, one that would finally offer a clear sense of Labour’s priorities and lift hundreds of thousands of families out of poverty?
“You might want to delete this, Susan.”
In a healthy media landscape, the Gill conviction would have ignited a national reckoning about Reform UK, Russian influence, and the vulnerability of British politics to foreign money and disinformation. Instead, the story slipped quietly beneath the surface, predictably overshadowed by Budget coverage and right-wing rage directed at Rachel Reeves.
“There are lots of grounds to be concerned about this on reasons of plurality, for competition, but more than anything else this Labour government should consider whether it is good for Britain, and good for its democracy.”
Sydney Sweeney is treated as a symbol of the ‘unwokening.’
Surely, media scrutiny should be consistent, not weaponised selectively.
“Well at least the Telegraph was warning us Brexit would be a terrible idea.”
“People like me should pay more, it’s as simple as that.”
Attitudes towards Israel have become hopelessly entangled with attitudes toward Jews, so entangled that many appear genuinely unaware that it is possible, indeed essential, to do two things at once: abhor antisemitism and condemn the devastation in Gaza.
“So how’s all that banning bonuses, sending executives to jail bulls*t working out I wonder?”
