It's much more complex than that, I would say. The media both reinforces, simplifies and accentuates views that people already have, and sometimes helps them to develop entirely new ones. (View Post)

Unfortunately yes. As mentioned yesterday, it was disastrous that the Cameron administration, supposedly so flexilble on digital issues and also sceptical of state overreach, disallowed the original … (View Post)

As doscussed on many PB threads, the BBC's coverage of social-economic issues has moved very clearly to the right since the 1990's, not only because of indirect government influence, but be… (View Post)

Actually I agree with this, although I prefer not to use woke, speaking for myself, as I think it's become a catch-all like political correctness. "Stay in your lane" is one of the mos… (View Post)

The trajectory of that Living Marxism group is one the fascinations of British politics. The thing is, with people like Munira Mirza actually in within the Downing Street operation, they've very… (View Post)