The dark history of the Telegraph's new owner
Analysis in the British press focuses on Axel Springer's attitude to Brexit but a closer look suggests its worldview is just Right for the Telegraph's existing editorial approach
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Thank you. That’s good to hear.
I write about Rudi Dutschke in the piece.
NEW | THE DARK HISTORY OF THE TELEGRAPH’S NEW OWNER
Analysis in the British press focuses on Axel Springer's attitude to Brexit but a closer look suggests its worldview is just Right for the Telegraph's existing editorial approach
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The latter, I think.
It's so cynical. It's pretty clear who's being aggressive here...
The framing is already locked in by that point.
Either terrible or absent.
Yes.
I think Edmund Burke would have guzzled that shit down.
Shocked, I was.
New MP Hannah Spencer was given a police escort after an anti-hate demonstration turned violent. The Green Party MP had made a speech at the Greater Together Manchester event on Sunday afternoon in Piccadilly Gardens.
I try very hard not to use the word Orwellian too much but it’s the best adjective for the mauling of language at the start of this BBC News report. “… an anti-hate demonstration that turned violent”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
My scepticism remains.
Venture capitalism rat fucks anything good.
Yes.
I know.
It’s almost like the UK’s right-wing press doesn’t actually reflect public opinion but instead the fevered imaginations of a very small group of sociopaths.
Well, the piece is about the present too!
Ha!
NEW | THE DARK HISTORY OF THE TELEGRAPH’S NEW OWNER
Analysis in the British press focuses on Axel Springer's attitude to Brexit but a closer look suggests its worldview is just Right for the Telegraph's existing editorial approach
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-dark-h...
This is what ecocide looks like.
He got absolutely hammered so pulled down the shutters.
This International Womens Day, I am thinking of the Women's March On Versailles.
In October 1789, the women of Paris marched on Louis XVI's palace, arrested the King, and brought him back to Paris under close watch of the people.
Women can dismantle even the most eternal, unshakable institutions.
R.I.P. Joseph “Country Joe” McDonald, frontman of counterculture folk-rock icons Country Joe And The Fish. He wrote the Berkeley band’s most enduring songs including the Vietnam War protest anthem “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” and “Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine,” a Hot 100 hit. McDonald was 84.
The patronising parenthetical explanation there is satirical perfection.
Is it 'removing a dictator' if all that changes is the new dictator pays you bigger bribes?
‘Debretton-Gordon’ sounds like the name of a border line that was arbitrarily drawn in 1919 and has helped kill hundreds of thousands of people
Challenge for those who are very confident that Claude isn't conscious: Explain how human consciousness works.
Challenge to those who talk this kind of shit about AI: Don’t be cowards and take your intellectual shoeings.
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon The US has now removed two dictators. Putin will be trembling in his boots
This guy’s byline picture should feature him dribbling blood.
I know this. There’s an essay on I Feel Fine.
