For a newspaper that invested considerable effort in implying Burnham’s jogging routine was somehow fabricated, the sight of the Greater Manchester mayor posting a competitive 10km time was an awkward reminder that sometimes a runner is simply a runner.
The approach follows a well-worn pattern in the right-wing British press. Humanitarian action reframed as controversy, aid depicted as incentive, and Muslim identity positioned as an additional source of tension.
The polls that regularly appear on the pages of the right-wing press, frequently rely on loaded questions, selective statistics and audiences already primed to agree with the publication’s editorial position.
A closer look at the policy reveals a more nuanced, and legitimate, position than the headlines suggest.
The new buyer has a long and well-documented tendency to blur the line between journalism and right-wing politics.
"Decisions about trans people’s lives are increasingly based entirely on the testimony of non-trans people.”